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IC and AS Flashcards

1
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What is IC?

A

Immidiate causation

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What is AS?

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Adaptive Significance

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Why do we need to know about AC and IC?

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We need to know why animals do what they do
Some clients want it

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How do we know what a client wants? Fix or why?

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The clue is in the questioning!

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5
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What lens do we look at why from?

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Biology!

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Why do we study why IC and AS

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To learn why animals do what they do

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7
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What is behaviour for?

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  1. Survival to reproductive age
  2. Reproduce
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What is survival about?

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Get enough to eat
Avoid being eating
Avoid injury and disease

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What are the AS of survival?

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Get to adulthood and reproduce to pass on your genes

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10
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What is a sexual cannibal?

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An animal where the female consumes the male before/or after copulation

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What are the 2 types of sexual cannibalism?

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1) Consensual
2) Non sonsensual

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What is consensual sexual cannibalism?

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Male allows himself to be consumed! He’s genetically programmed to offer himself as a meal so the female is well nourished and able to grow and nurture his offspring

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What is non-consensual sexual cannibalism?

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The female see’s the male as a snack. The male wants to go and copulate with someone else and leave more offspring.

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14
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Does it matter what traits you have if you fail to reproduce?

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No! It doesn’t matter at all because you do not pass the superior gene’s on.

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15
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What have all organisms on the planet descended from?

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An unbroken line of organisms that reproduced at least once!

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What does the unbroken line mean?

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There is ruthless vetting of organisms’ ability to
live to reproductive age
reproduce

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17
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Are biological processes expense?

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Yes, survival and reproducing is metabolically expensive

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18
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Is movement expensive?

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Yes

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19
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Is learning expensive?

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Yes running a brain is very metabolically expensive!

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20
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What is metabolically expensive for a dog?

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Survival
Reproducing
Spring into action at any time
Eating
Moving
Behaving
Keep brain and Body in a ready peak

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21
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What does this notion of metabolic expense contradict

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Dogs should do stuff to make me happy!

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22
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If there is such an expense to behaviour what do we need?

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Offsetting benefit

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23
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What is the offsetting benefit? As ir ic

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Follow the money-> adaptive significant

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24
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What are the 4 drivers for dog Behvr

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AS - Reproduce, get enough to eat, avoid being eaten, avoid injury and disease

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25
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What is IC - Buffy & Costumes

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I sit because I get snacks, I feel good when she puts head dress on me because I feel snacky happy

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26
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What question can we ask to ID AS from IC

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Why RIGHT NOW in particular, are you doing a B?

27
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What does domestication do to AS and IC?

A

Selection pressures change.
Some are increased
Some are relaxed

28
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Why are some selection pressures increased?

A

Selective breeding - I want X trait or Y trait

29
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Why are some selection pressures decreased?

A

Human safety net
Allowance for misfires

30
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What is drift in relation to selection pressures

A

Unimportant traits which are largely ignored.
Buggy, misfiring, drifting traits!

31
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What is an example of domestication where the animal is successful but only because of human intervention

A

English bull dogs who have to be born via cessarian

32
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What does success mean in evolutionary sense?

A

Survive to reproductive age and reproduce

33
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What does fit mean?

A

They make it to reproductive age and they reproduce

34
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What do we make value judgements about?

A

HOW they survive and reproduce!
E.g. human assistance, eating their mate etc!

35
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What allows traits to drift?

A

Human safety net
Allowances for misfire

36
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What is a misfire

A

Behaviour software running at the wrong time, at the wrong target etc.

37
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Why do misfires exist?

A

These animals are allowed to reproduce

38
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What is the definition of IC?

A

What is the trigger for this behaviour right now? If you interview the animal or did bloodwork what kind of answer might you get?

39
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What is the definition of AS

A

How does, or did, this behaviour contribute to the animals survival or reproduction

40
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What is a helpful way of thinking about IC and AS

A

Peel the “but why” onion to get to the core

41
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What is the core of the onion?

A

The AS answer!

42
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What are the layers of the onion?

A

IC

43
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Fat and Sugar now kill us, why haven’t we evolved a preference against fat and sugar?

A

Because we survive to reproductive age so we pass it on

44
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Who is Sir Peter Medawar and the Medawar effect?

A

The prediction is that you’d get sick and die after your reproductive stage. Why? The pressure to live is lifted because you have already reproduced.

45
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How does evolution work in reference to bugs that pick us off

A

The bugs that pick you off before you reproduce do not get passed on
The bugs that pick you off after you reproduce do get passed on

46
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IC or AS - why do people fight for just causes?
Because it feels like the right thing to do?

A

IC

47
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IC or AS - why do people fight for just causes?
Because of cultural conditioning?

A

IC

48
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IC or AS - why do people fight for just causes?
Because empathy and altruism are selected for under certain conditions

A

AS

49
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IC or AS - why do people fight for just causes?
Because they have mirror neurons?

A

IC

50
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IC or AS - why do people fight for just causes?
Because they can’t sleep at night if they don’t

A

IC

51
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IC or AS - why do people fight for just causes?
Because they feel better about themselves if they’re on the moral high ground

A

IC

52
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IC or AS - why do people fight for just causes?
Because they are taught morals by their parents?

A

IC

53
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Why do dogs hump pillows?
Because they are anxious or amped up?

A

IC

54
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Why do dogs hump pillows?
Because they are hormonally imbalanced

A

IC

55
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Why do dogs hump pillows?
Because they have dominant personalities and sometimes redirect behaviour from dogs to pillows?

A

IC

56
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Why do dogs hump pillows?
Because It’s cheap yet incredibly vital repro FAP and it sometimes misfires

A

AS

57
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Why do dogs hump pillows?
Because they don’t get enough exercise and environmental enrichment

A

IC

58
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Why do dogs hump pillows?
Because it feels good

A

IC

59
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What are the costs of Tendency towards mounting is under selective (i.e. hump anything)

A

Costs - Energy expenditure, Aggressed off more

60
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What are the benefits of tendency towards mounting underselectively

A

Rarely miss mating opp

61
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What are the costs of the Tendency towards mounting is over selective

A

miss mating opps

62
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What are the benefits of the Tendency towards being over selective in mounting?

A

Saves energy
Aggressedd of less

63
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Which dog will be more successful and pass on his genes in relation to the selectiveness of mounting?

A

The under-selective animal will mate more and therefore be more represented in the population. Therefore he will pass his genes on to being under selective to mating and therefore may hump pillows etc

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