Week 13
Started with the book – Historical Review (left off pg.281)
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Ended the chapter 8
Chapter 9 same era but focuses more on like evolution of ecology and ethology
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Parent trait
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Sport – mutation have a large effect on phenotype
o Problematic because it is not gradual change
Biometry
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Linear regression
Correlation implies heritability
Offspring Trait
Talked about variance and within population variation vs between . . .
Variation is key to understanding modern . . . .
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, Fisher Book
Haldane’s 1932 book, The Causes of Evolution,
Ecology  looking at relationships
Gause
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Similar to Darwin, is looking at competition
Growth conditions best for
o P. caudatum homotypic
o P. aurelia  heterotypic
o They are best adapted to their preferred medium/environment
o Suboptimal growth conditions
Showed the effects of competition for survivorship
Competitive exclusion
Tinbergen and Ethology
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Lorenz and they look at the animals much broader than I psychology they were little robots
Lorenz imprinting
He came up with the for question (in book)
He brought in the experimentation into ethology
Observation v Description
o Stuff
Causation
o Ultimate Cause
o Proximate Cause
o Talked about instinct and signaling
Survival Value
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Fitness today
What is the value of having certain stimuli?
 The supernormal stimuli
o Set response versus what is learned
o Looking at the utility of the behavior and not JUST the behavior
o He was such a big I guess advocate for survival value but that others not so much because
well it is hard
o Pg.421-22 just that it is hard, field study is hard
Ontogeny
o Development, a mechanistic part
o The Proximate Cause
o What we think of today as Developmental Biology
o How particular structures are ?? and
Evolution
o The Ultimate Cause
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