Sexual Selection and Offspring

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separation of child and mother leads to long term behavioural changes
Hinde
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development and attachment study with cloth mother
Harlow and harlow
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social bonds defined as long term enduring social relationships between same or opposite sex individuals that are mutually beneficial
Silk and Alberts 2003
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measured bonds between babboons for over 30 years
silk et al
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dolphins have been found to form complex alliances to guard a female lasting up to 20 years
Connor 2000
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rhesus macaques are faster to react to contact calls of their kin and look longer towards the speaker
rendall et al 1996
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the similarity principle suggests animals establish bonds with those they most resemble
pettigrew 1998
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neural and hormonal mechanisms affect social bonds eg oxytocin release increases trust in strangers and generosity in general
Van Anders 2011
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male female bonds in baboons increase survival of infants
Palombit 1997
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cooperation provides direct benefits such as lower probability of being killed by predators, better chance of finding food, improved competitive ability and improved success at rearing own young for dominant individuals
Dugatkin 1997
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inclusive fitness is the total fitness an individual gains by breeding and by helping close relatives to breed
Taylor 1992
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altruistic behaviour occurs if the benefit to the recipient over the cost to the donor is greater than 1 over the coefficient of relatedness
Hamiltons rule
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provided the benefit of an altruistic act to the recipient is greater than the cost to the donor then as long as the help is reciprocated at a later date both participants gain
trivers 1971
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vampire bats share blood with neighbours as reciprocation is likely in those close quaters
wilkinson 1984
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when faced with 2 containers one with a trapped rat and one with chocolate subjects opened both and shared the food
Cheney et al 2010
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when the prisoners dilemma is iterated the best strategy is *** for tat, beginning with cooperation
Axelrod 1984
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human society, morality and emotions may be shaped by reciprocal altruism
trivers 1971
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haplodiploidy is a sex determination system in which males develop from unfertalised eggs and are haploid and females develop from fertalised eggs and are diploid.
Trivers 1976
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3 things that need to work in order for a eusocial species to be successful
reproductive division of labour, cooperative care of young and overlapping generations
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primates have been shown to be unhappy with low value food if the other animal gets a better reward for the same work
de waal 2006
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primates with better reward have been shown to protest against another getting less
Brosnan and de waal 2003
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communication is a process in which actors use specially designed signals or displays to modify the behaviour of reactors
krebs and davies
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3 hypothesis as to why behaviour becomes rituatlised as signals
Reduction of ambiguity, manipulation, honesty
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social organisation -any set of organisms belonging to the same species that remains together for a period of time interacting with one another to a distinctly greater degree than with other conspecifics
Wilson 1975
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