2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Jul 06, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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BIO 460 - CUE: Behavioral Ecology

Course unit(s): 1
Meets requirement: W
Prerequisite(s): Any two biology courses from List A, B, or C.
Behavioral ecology is the study of how behavior is influenced by natural selection.  The major theories of behavioral ecology of sexual selection, kin section, honesty and deceit, and game theory are applied to gain understanding of the adaptive value of the social behavior of animals, including humans.  Emphasis is placed on reading, discussing, and writing on case studies in the primary literature. Three class hours per week.



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