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Sexual selection (Intro + How does it work)- Week 2, part 1.
What is sexual selection is it a ...,
Can you have male and female memb...,
Example for ibex how are males an...
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Contest-Combat Competition (intro + risks and benefits)- Week 2, part 2.
What are the different types of i...,
Contest competition what do males...,
What does contest competition lea...
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Other modes of intrasexual competition- week 2, part 3.
Are there other ways apart from d...,
In baboons what do lower ranking ...,
What is one alternative strategy ...
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Sexual selection 2- Week 3, part 1- Introduction to mate choice.
What is sexual selection,
What is intrasexual selection who...,
Bateman s 1984 classic study of f...
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Sexual selection 2- Week 3, part 2- Choice for direct benefits.
Mate complementarity what is comp...,
Continuation with mate complement...,
Continuation with mate complement...
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Sexual selection 2- Week 3, part 3- Choice for indirect benefits (Runaway selection).
What is split into two categories...,
What is the second category what ...,
Runaway sexual selection who made...
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Introduction to postcopulatory sexual selection- Week 4, part 1.
What is postcopulatory sexual sel...,
In many species can females benef...,
What happened in the 1980s name t...
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Week 4, part 2- Adaptations to sperm competition.
What has evolved how many adaptat...,
Adaptation 1 prolonged copulation...,
Continuation from adaptation 1 pr...
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Week 4, part 3- Prudent sperm allocation.
Sperm competition theory within i...,
Continuation from sperm competiti...,
Continuation from sperm competiti...
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Week 4, part 4- Sperm characteristics.
What is variable across species w...,
How long is rat sperm can species...,
Fruit fly drosophilia bifurcawhat...
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Week 4, part 5- Cryptic female choice.
Why is the term cryptic used,
Postcopulatory sexual selection w...,
Cryptic female choice what is it ...
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Sexual selection 2- Week 3, part 4- Choice for indirect benefits (Chase-away and good genes).
Runaway selection working evidenc...,
Continuation from runaway selecti...,
Assortative mating genetic correl...
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Sexual selection 2- Week 3, part 5- Choice for indirect benefits (handicap principle).
What will this set of flashcards ...,
In what species do females all pr...,
Continuation from variation deple...
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Lecture 1- Behaviour (How and why), Evolution (How it works), Tinbergen's four questions, Research methods and How do animals make decisions.
Approach to study animal behaviou...,
Behaviour how versus why what are...,
What is behaviour essentially wha...
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Lecture 5- Foraging (what to eat)- Introduction to Optimality theory.
What can you say about this area ...,
What is foraging what do you use ...,
What are humans what kind of huma...
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Lecture 5- Foraging (what to eat)- Decisions, decisions, decisions.
What are animals always doing giv...,
Does the life of an animal revolv...,
What are all the optimal foraging...
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Lecture 5, Part 4- Foraging (what to eat)- Rule of thumb.
What do northwest crows do when f...,
Continuation from northwest crows...,
Classic study on crows who was th...
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Lecture 5, part 5- Foraging (what to eat)- Generalists versus specialists.
Give an example of an animal whic...,
Rats conditioned taste aversion w...,
What do rats also exhibit what do...
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