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LEC # TOPICS
1 Introduction. Evolution …
2 … and the Selfish Gene
3 The Study of Animal Behavior
4 Development of Behavior
Midterm Paper Topics Distributed
5 Neuroethology and the Organizing Mechanisms of Behavior
6 Alternative Strategies
7 The Arms Race I: Eating (Optimality and
Predation)
8 The Arms Race II: Being Eaten (Antipredator Adaptation)
9 Habitat selection
Mid Term Paper Due Beginning of Class
10 Aggression and Territoriality
11 Spatial Cognition and Navigation
EXAM I: Lectures 1 - 11
12 Communication I: Adaptation
13 Communication II: Mechanisms
14 The Battle of the Sexes I: Why Sex?
15 The Battle of the Sexes II: Sexual Selection
16 Mating Systems
17 Hormones and Sexual Behavior (Petrulis)
18 Altruism and Game Theory
19 Parenting
Final Paper Topics Due
20 Social Living
EXAM II: Lectures 12 - 20
21 Discussion: Intelligence and Complexity
22 Discussion: Human Ethology
23 Discussion: “Cognitive Adaptation?”
Final Paper Due Beginning of Class