Chapter 55 Key Terms
- p. 1230: survival value, adaptive, behavioral ecology, adaptive significance, fitness
- p. 1231: foraging behaviors, specialists, generalists, net energy, optimal foraging theory
- p. 1232: social behavior, home range, territoriality
- p. 1233: reproductive strategy, mate choice, parental investment, spermatophore, sexual dimorphism
- p. 1235: reproductive competition, sexual selection, intrasexual selection, intersexual selection, secondary sexual characteristics, runaway selection
- p. 1236: mating systems, monogamy, polygyny, polyandry
- p. 1237: altricial, precocial, society
- p. 1238: altruism, group selection, reciprocal altruism
- p. 1239: kin, kin selection, inclusive fitness, Hamilton's rule, coefficient of relatedness, castes, superorganisms
- p. 1240: haplodiploidy, queen substance, drones, helpers at the nest
- p. 1241: alarm call, nepotism
- p. 1242: ungulates, human sociobiology
- p. 1243: biological evolution, cultural evolution, tradition
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