Tinbergen's 4 Questions
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- Tinbergen's 4 Questions
- 1. Function (fitness value) (UC)
- What is it for? What is it designed to do?
- E.G. SONGBIRD - ATTRACT MATES OR TERRITORY
- 2. Phylogeny (UC)
- Environmental tree/history. How did it come to exist? Ancestral selection pressures and phylogenetic pathways
- E.G. SONGBIRD - SINGING IS COMMON IN AN ENTIRE SUBORDER OF BIRDS (4000 SPECIES)
- 3. Causation (PC)
- Proximate causes e.g. physiological, neurochemical, anatomical, endocrinological, psychological
- E.G. SONGBIRD - NEURAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN SONG PRODUCTION, ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI MAY TRIGGER SINGING/PRODUCTION E.G. TIME OF YEAR
- 4. Ontogeny (PC)
- How does the behaviour develop? Embroyological, developmental and cultural differences
- E.G. SONGBIRD - ROLE OF TESTOSTERONE IN SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE BRAIN OR ROLE OF SONG LEARNING FROM YOUNG AGE
- 1. Function (fitness value) (UC)
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