NCSU Course ZO410 Lecture: 
Parental Care

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Costs/Benefits of Parental Care
 

Parental Investment:
Any investment by a parent, in an individual offspring which increases that offspring's chance of surviving and reproducing, occurs at the cost of the parent's ability to invest in other offspring, and may reduce parents RS.

    Parental Care in various species
    Precocial vs. Altricial offspring
    Male and Female strategies
        -fertilization mode

Parental-offspring Conflict

Humans
    Infanticide
    Step-parents
    Uncle care
 
 

REVIEW LIST FOR FINAL EXAM

Costs and Benefits of Sociality
4 C's of Social systems
3 components of social systems
    (organization, mating system, social spacing)
    -know the types of each of the 3 above
    -which typically "go together" (ex. families and monogamy)
Social interactions of groups (altruism, cooperaton, etc... effects on fitness)
    examples of above interactions-- WHY do they occur?
Aggression
    definition
    innate or learned?
    types (intrasexual, intersexual, etc.)
    5 phases of aggression
    submissive behavior
    ESS (evolutionarily stable strategy)
Dominance
Territories vs. Home Ranges
Types of territories
Costs and Benefits of Sexual Reproduction
Isogamy/Anisogamy
Bateman gradient
Sexual selection
    intrasexual and intersexual (examples of each?)
    sperm competition
Sexual dimorphism
Runaway selection
He-man vs. Domestic Bliss strategies
Antiphilandry tactic
Anticuckoldry strategies
Hypergamy in humans
Double Standard in humans
Mating systems-- characteristics of each type
    examples
    WHEN expect each to occur
    birds vs. mammals- why difference?
Humans
    infanticide
    step-families
    uncles' role

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