- Behavior and evolution
- Simple behaviors: Tropisms and taxes; spinal reflexes
- Complex behavior:
- Behavior as an adaptation
- Behavior as a form of reproductive isolation,
- Behavior as a preadaptation to new modes of selection
- Sociobiology and social behavior
- Definitions
- Advantages, disadvantages
- Group size & spacing; territoriality
- Parental investment and inclusive fitness
- Altruism & its evolution:
- (?) group selection
- by kin selection (inclusive fitness)
- Hamilton's rule
- by reciprocal altruism (TIT FOR TAT, PAVLOV)
- Evolutionarily Stable Strategies (ESS)
- Dawkins's SELFISH GENE
- Sex differences and sexual selection
Anisogamy and its consequences
Sexual orientation as an evolutionary conundrum
Feminism and other social trends.
- Music and poetry in a Darwinian context
- E.O. Wilson' SOCIAL CONQUEST
- Humans form social groups — Why?
- Inclusive fitness?
- Group selection?
- Case in point: allomothering and possible adoption
- Homosexuality and inclusive fitness
- "Reserve capacity" for intelligence (e.g., music, poetry)
- Group conflict and animosity
- Religion as "tribalism"
- Morality, psychology, and evolutionary ethics
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