Student Learning Outcomes, Week 2

The Origin of Species

What is a species?

How does speciation lead to macroevolutionary diversity?

Ch 20.4, 22, 25

1. Be able to define “species”
2. Identify species isolation mechanisms
3. Be able to describe mechanisms for allopatric and sympatric speciation
4. Be able to describe the role of developmental genes in species diversity
5. Connect the process of speciation to macroevolution

Terms and Concepts

• allopatric

• sympatric

• biological species

• reproductive isolation: prezygotic, postzygotic

• microevolution; macroevolution

• anagenesis

• cladogenesis

• adaptive radiation

Animal Behavior, Ch 54

Relate, compare and appraise selected general behavioral responses of organisms to their respective environments with respect to proximate and ultimate causations.

This includes:

• Fixed-action patterns

• Foraging strategies, esp. cost/benefit analysis

• Benefits of play

• Learning and cognition, e.g. imprinting and conditioning

• Migration

• Social behaviors: cooperation, agonistic behavior and territorialism, courtship, and altruism

Terms and Concepts

Ethology operant conditioning

proximate causation classical conditioning

ultimate causation navigation

Innate orientation

fixed action patterns agonistic behavior

sign-stimulus territory

search image courtship

cost/benefit analysis parental investment

habituation pheromones

imprinting altruism

associative learning coefficient of relatedness