Core Concepts in Animal Behavior – Winter 2013 11 March 2013
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Michael
Beecher Professor
of Psychology & Biology Guthrie 327, 543-6545 beecher@uw.edu |
PSYCH 502, 3 credits
(graded) Tues Thurs
11:00-12:20 – Guthrie 315
http://courses.washington.edu/ccab/
We
will discuss the major concepts and research approaches in the contemporary
study of animal behavior, focusing on topics that lie at the interface of
animal behavior, evolutionary biology, neurobiology and psychology. Each week
will focus on one topic. We will read both classic and ‘hot new’ papers.
Because there are more core concepts than there are weeks in the course, I have
left some out and have left some play in the schedule. In particular one week
is open for a topic that can any one of you can suggest. In addition,
appropriate papers for the other weeks can be suggested.
Course
requirements and student responsibilities: Because this is a graduate seminar
course, there will be no exams; there will be no term paper either. But the
other side of the coin is that the student’s presence and active participation
are de rigueur. Your grade will depend entirely on participation in the actual
class sessions. Each week’s papers will be divided up among the class
participants so that each student will have one specific assignment each week
besides being responsible for reading the rest of the material. Any student
participating fully in the course will get a 4.0. You need to let me know if
there is a class you cannot attend (e.g., because you are going to a scientific
conference). Unexcused absences are pretty much the only route to a
less-than-4.0 grade.
Usually
it will make sense to bring a ppt presentation to class to illustrate the paper
(or part of a paper) on which you are the ‘point person’. Therefore I will
bring a projector (and also a laptop if you request) to each class session.
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Schedule
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Date |
Topic |
Readings |
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1 |
Jan 8, 10 |
History of the field |
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2 |
Jan 15, 17 |
Altruism
& Kin Selection |
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3 |
Jan 22, 24 |
Altruism:
Reciprocity, Limited Control & Concession Models |
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4 |
Jan 29, 31 |
Eusociality
& the Return of Group Selection
Caglar
lecture notes |
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5 |
Feb 5, 7 |
Sexual
Selection |
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6 |
Feb 12, 17 |
Communication
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7 |
Feb 19, 21 |
Animal
Cognition |
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8 |
Feb 26 Feb 28 |
Animal Cognition Evolutionary
Psychology |
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9 |
Mar 01 Mar 03 |
Evolutionary Psychology Integrative
Approaches |
Tooby &
Cosmides: EP Primer (see also optionals below) |
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10 |
Mar 08, 10 |
Integrative
Approaches |
Readings for
Winter 2013 *optional reading **really optional, usually added
after class
Altruism &
Kin Selection
Williams, G. C. (1966). Adaptation
and Natural Selection, Princeton University Press (chapt 1).
Wynne-Edwards, V. C. (1963). Intergroup
selection in the evolution of social systems. Nature 200: 623-626.
Wynne-Edwards, V., Maynard Smith, J., & Perrins, C. (1964). Group
selection and kin selection; Survival of young swifts in relation to brood-size.
Nature 201: 1145-1149.
Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B. (1981). pp 14-18 in An
Introduction to Behavioural Ecology, Blackwell (3rd edition 1993).
Classic
Empirical studies on Altruism & Kin Selection
Sherman, P.W. (1977). Nepotism
and the evolution of alarm calls. Science
197: 1246-1253.
Emlen, S.T., Wrege, P.W., and Demong, N.J. (1995). Making
decisions in the family: an evolutionary perspective. American Scientist 83: 148-157.
bigger
better pdf
Krakauer, A. H. (2005). Kin
selection and cooperative courtship in wild turkeys. Nature 434: 69-72.
Manning, C. J., Wakeland, E. K. & Potts, W. K. (1992). Communal
nesting patterns in mice implicate MHC genes in kin recognition. Nature 360: 581-583.
* Holmes, W. G. (2004). The
early history of Hamiltonian-based research on kin recognition. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41: 691-711.
* Ruff, J. S., Nelson, A.
C., Kubinak, J. L. & Potts, W. K. (2012). MHC
signaling during social communication. In Self and Nonself, Carlos
López‑Larrea, C. (Ed.). Landes
Bioscience.
Classic Empirical
studies on Reciprocal Altrusim, Limited-Control & Concession Models
Wilkinson, G. S. (1984). Reciprocal
food sharing in the vampire bat. Nature
308: 181-184.
Carter GG, Wilkinson GS. (2013). Food
sharing in vampire bats: reciprocal help predicts donations more than
relatedness or harassment. Proceedings
of the Royal Society B 280: 2573.
* Wilkinson, G. S. (1990). Food
sharing in vampire bats. Scientific
American.
Fischer, E. A. (1988).
Simultaneous hermaphroditism, tit-for-tat, and the evolutionary stability of
social systems. Ethology &
Sociobiology 9: 119-136.
Clutton-Brock, T. (1998). Reproductive
skew, concessions and limited control. Trends
in Ecology & Evolution 13: 288-292.
Clutton-Brock, T. et al.
(2001). Cooperation,
control, and concession in meerkat groups. Science 291: 478-481.
Snyder-Mackler, N., Alberts, S.
C. & Bergman, T. J. (2012) Concessions of an an alpha male? Cooperative
defence and shared reproduction in multi-male primate groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279:
3788-3795.
Eusociality
& the Return of Group Selection
Queller, D. C. & Strassman,
J. E. (1998). Kin selection and social insects. Bioscience 48: 165-175.
Wilson, D. S. & Wilson, E.
O. (2007). Rethinking the theoretical foundation of sociobiology. 82: 327-348.
West Eberhard, M. J. (1987). Flexible
strategy and social evolution. pp 35-51 in Ito, Y., Brown, J. L. &
Kikkawa, J. (eds.) Animal Societies:
Theories and Facts.
Ratnieks, F. L. W. & Wenseleers, T. (2006). Altruism
in insect colonies and beyond: voluntary or enforced. Trends in Ecology &
Evolution 23: 45-52.
* Strassman, J. E. &
Queller, D. C. (2007). Insect
societies as divided organisms: the complexities of purpose and cross-purpose.
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 104: 8619-8626.
* Nowak, M. A., Tarnita, C. E. & Wilson, E. O. (2010). The
evolution of eusociality. Nature
466: 1057-1062. [Note that I’ve attached the supplementary material to the
article itself. Consider that to have a **!]
* Many mad-as-hornets authors (2011). Inclusive
fitness theory and eusociality. Nature
471: E1-10.
** Alexander, R. D. (1974). The evolution of
social behavior. Annual Review of
Ecology & Systematics 5: 325-383.
Sexual
Selection
Andersson, M. (1982). Female
choice selects for extreme tail length in a widowbird. Nature 299: 818-820.
Wilkinson, G. S. & Reillo, P. R. (1994). Female
choice response to artificial selection on an exaggerated male trait in a
stalk-eye fly. Proceedings of the
Royal Society B 255: 1-6.
Gonzalez-Voyer, A., Fitzpatrick, J. L. & Kolm, N. (2008). Sexual
selection determines parental care patterns in cichlid fishes. Evolution 62: 2015-2026.
[see also Communication below]
Communication
Searcy, W. A. & Nowicki, S. (2005). “Introduction”
from The
Evolution of Animal Communication: Reliability and Deception in Signaling
Systems. Princeton.
Laidre, M.
E. (2009). How
often do animals lie about their intentions? An experimental test. American Naturalist 173, 337-346.
Logue, D. M.
et al (2010). Does
signalling mitigate the cost of agonistic intentions? A test in a cricket that
has lost its song. Proceedings of the Royal
Society B
277: 2571-2575.
Backwell et
al (2000). Dishonest
signalling in a fiddler crab. Proceedings of the Royal
Society B
267: 719-724.
* Rendall, D., Owren, M. J. & Ryan, M. J. (2009). What
do animal signals mean? Animal
Behaviour 78: 233-240.
* Seyfarth, R. L. et al. (2010). The
central importance of information in studies of animal communication. Animal Behaviour 80: 3-8.
* Ryan, M. J. (1991). Sexual selection
and communication in frogs. Trends in
Ecology & Evolution 6: 351-356.
* Dawkins, R. & Krebs, J.
R. (1978). Animal signals: Information or manipulation. In J. R. Krebs & N. B.
Davies (eds.), Behavioural Ecology :
An Evolutionary Approach. Sinauer.
** Kimball, R. T., Braun, E.
L., Ligon, J. D., Lucchini, V. & Randi, E. (2001). A
molecular phylogeny of the peacock-pheasants (Galliformes: Polyplectron spp.) indicates loss and reduction of ornamental
traits and display behaviours.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 73: 187-198.
** Ron, S. R. (2008). The evolution
of female mate choice for complex calls in tungara frogs. Animal Behaviour 76: 1783-1794.
** Meyer, A., Morrissey, J. M. & Schartl, M. (1994). Recurrent
origin of a sexual selected trait in Xiphophorus
fishes inferred from a molecular phylogeny. Nature 368: 539-542.
** Alan Grafen’s ppt on the handicap model:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~grafen/LectPres/handicaps.ppt
** See also Carl Bergstrom’s web module on honest signalling:
http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/handicap/honest_biology_1a.html
Animal Cognition
(Cognitive Ethology)
Gould, J. L. (2004). Thinking
about thinking: how Donald R. Griffin (1915–2003) remade animal behavior. Animal Cognition 7: 1–4.
Herrmann, E., Call, J.,
Hernandez-Lloreda, M. V., Hare, B. & Tomasello, M. (2007).
Humans
have evolved specialized skills of social cognition: The cultural intelligence Hypothesis. Science
317: 1360-1366.
Dean, L. G., Kendal, R. L.,
Schapiro, S. J. & Laland, K. N.
(2012). Identification
of the social and cognitive processes underlying human cumulative culture. Science 335: 1114-1118.
de Waal, F. B. M.
(2012). The
antiquity of empathy. Science
336: 874-876.
de Waal, F. B. M.
(2008). Putting
the altruism back into altruism: The evolution of empathy. Annual Review of Psychology 59: 279-300.
Evolutionary Psychology
Haidt, J. & Kesebir, S.
(2010). Morality. In S. Fiske, D. Gilber & G. Lindzey (eds.), Handbook of Social Psychology, pp
797-832.
Cosmides, L. & Toobey, J. (1997). Evolutionary
Psychology: A Primer. [online]
* Daly, M. & Wilson, M.
(1999). Human
evolutionary psychology and animal behaviour. Animal
Behaviour 57: 509–519.
* Smith, E. A., Borgerhoff
Mulder, M. & Hill, K. (2000). Evolutionary
analyses of human behaviour: A commentary on Daly & Wilson. Animal Behaviour 60: F21-26.
Integrative Approaches
Dioniak, S. M., French, J. A.
& Holekamp, K. E. (2006). Rank-related
maternal effects of androgens on behaviour in wild spotted hyaenas. Nature 440: 1190-1193.
Kotrschal, A. et al (2013). Artificial
selection on relative brain size in the guppy reveals costs and benefits of
evolving a larger brain. Current
Biology 23: 1-4.
Zanette, L. Y., White, A. F.,
Allen, M. C. & Clinchy, M. (2011). Perceived
predation risk reduces the number of offspring songbirds produce per year. Science 334: 1398-1401.
Fernald, R. D. and Karen P.
Maruska. (2012). Social
information changes the brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 109: 17194–17199.
van Oers, K., Piet J. Drent, P.
J., de Goede, P. & van Noordwijk, A. J. (2004). Realized
heritability and repeatability of risk-taking behaviour in relation to avian
personalities. Proceedings of the Royal
Society B
271: 65-73.
Glocker,
M. L. et al. (2009). Baby
schema modulates the brain reward system in nulliparous women. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 106: 9115-9119.
Musso,
M. et al. (2003). Broca’s
area and the language instinct. Nature
Neuroscience 6: 774-781.