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Chapter 60: Behavioral Ecology


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Chapter 60: Behavioral Ecology

p. 1213: behavioral ecologists

p. 1214: survival value, adaptive, behavioral ecology, adaptive significance, fitness

p. 1215: foraging behavior, specialists, generalists, net energy, optimal foraging theory

p. 1216: reproductive behavior, home range, territoriality, economic approach, benefits, costs

p. 1217: reproductive strategy, mate choice, parental investment, spermatophore

p. 1218: sexual selection, intrasexual selection, intersexual selection, secondary sexual characteristics

p. 1219: runaway selection, whydah

p. 1220: mating systems, monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, altricial, precocial

p. 1221: society, sociobiology, altruism, group selection

p. 1222: reciprocal altruism, kin, kin selection, inclusive fitness

p. 1223: eusocial, castes, haplodiploidy, queen substance, drones, thrips

p. 1224: helpers at the nest, alarm call, nepotism

p. 1225: naked mole rat

p. 1226: biological evolution, cultural evolution, tradition, evolutionary psychology

 

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