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?