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Lecturer(s)
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Bureš Stanislav, prof. Ing. CSc.
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Course content
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Subject, terminology, proximate and ultimate level of study. Optimal behaviour, costs and benefits, trade-offs and adaptations. Optimal foraging theory. Parasite-host interactions. Predator-prey interactions. Selfishness and altruism. Co-operation in animals. Competing for resources, economics of resource defence, optimal territory size. Evolutionarily stable strategy. Evolution of sexual dimorphism. Sexual conflict and sexual selection. Selection for attractiveness and the handicap hypothesis. Mating systems. Alternative breeding strategies (ABS), costs and benefits of ABS, sex change as an ABS. Evolution of communication in animals. Human behavioural ekology and evolutionary psychology.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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Proximate and ultimate level of study. Optimal behaviour, costs and benefits, trade-offs and adaptations.
Student should be able to (after attending the course): - Explain the importance of the behaviour for reproduction and surviving. - Explain the behaviour at proximate and ultimate level, group, individual and gene (genotype) selection, genetic background of the behaviour. - Explain the sexual selection. - Explain the principle of the evolutionary stable strategies. - Test the hypotheses and design the experiments in etoecology.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark
PhD Exam
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Recommended literature
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Alcock J. (2005). Animal behavior: an evolutionary approach.
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Dugatkin L. (2004). Principles of animal behavior.
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Krebs J. R. & Davies N. B. (1993). An introduction to behavioural ecology.
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Krebs J. R. & Davies N. B. (1997). Behavioural ecology: an evolutionary approach.
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