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Timeline
Note: There is a weekly quiz on the readings every Tuesday!
Week 1: Evolutionary approach to behavior
- Readings
- Dawkins 1-14
- DKW 1 Natural Selection
- In Class
- Assignment
Week 2: Hypothesis testing
- In Class
- 4 Sept. Test on Dawkins
- Readings
- DKW 2 Testing hypotheses
- Assignment
- None
Week 3: Resource competition
- Readings
- DKW 5 Resource competition
- Assignment
Week 4: Grouping
- Readings
- DKW 6 Groups
- MT: Schooling in fish.
- MT: Sharks: solitary or group animals?
- MT: Alliance formation in bottlenose dolphins.
- MT: The evolution of intergroup coalitionary aggression in humans.
- Assignments
- None
Week 5: Sexual selection, sexual conflict
- Readings
- DKW 7 Sexual selection
- MT: The role of evolution in mating behavior of lekking species.
- MT: To eat or to mate? Sexual cannibalism in Mantodea and arachnid species
- MT: Violent mating: traumatic insemination in bed bugs and other cimicids.
- MT: Sexual conflict and forced copulations lead to the co-evolution of sexual organs in Anas platyrhynchos.
- Assignments
Week 6: Parental care, conflict
- Readings
- DKW 8 Parental care
- Assignments
Week 7: Mating systems
- Readings
- DKW 9 Mating systems
- Assignments
- None
Week 8: Cooperative breeding
- Readings
- DKW 10 Sex allocation
- Assignments
Week 9: Evolution of altruism
- Readings
- DKW 11 Social behavior
- MT: A marine dwelling eusocial organism: Synalpheus regalis.
- MT: Evolution of eusociality in Mole-rats
- Assignments
Week 10: Cooperation
- Readings
- DKW 12 Cooperation
- Assignments
- None
Week 11: Practice sessions for high school workshop
- Assignments
- Nov 8th teach high school class
Week 12: Social insects
- Readings
- DKW 13 Social insects
- Assignments
Week 13: Communication
- Readings
- DKW 14 Communication
- MT: Costs and benefits of non-predator eavesdropping in mammal-bird alarm call interactions.
- MT: Primate alarm calls.
- MT: Intra-species communication and foraging in social insects.
- Assignments
Week 14: No class
Week 15: Human behavior
- Readings
- DKW 15
- Assignments
- None
Table of Articles
This table will list each article that a student is working on, and which other students will be peer reviewers for the article.