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History and Method Study Questions
1. Why did typological thinking act
as a stumbling block for the understanding and acceptance of evolution by
natural selection?
2. Explain the process of natural
selection and why it is considered a "blind" process.
3. How might an organism be constrained
evolutionarily? Can natural selection evolve any behavior imaginable?
4. What are the four questions that
Tinbergen asked about Animal Behavior, and explain the gist of each question?
5. What is a species typical behavior?
6. What are proximate questions?
Ask one of the animal you studied in section.
What are ultimate questions? Ask
one of the animal you studied in section.
7. What are the fields of Behavioral
Ecology, Ethology, Animal Psychology? How would you differentiate this fields?
8. How would you resolve the old
question of is it nurture or nature?
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