Primate Social Interaction
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- What is a dyatic or pairwise interaction?
- An interaction between two individuals.
- Selfish acts are:
- Beneficial to the actor, detrimental to the recipient.
- Spiteful acts are:
- Detrimental to the actor and the recipient.
- Mutualistic acts are:
- Beneficial to the actor and the recipient.
- Why are altruism and spite confounding to natural selection?
- Because they both decrease the fitness of the actor.
- What are the two important insights of Hamilton's Rule?
- That altruism is limited to kin and that closer kinship facilitates more costly altruism.
- What is phenotypic matching?
- Recognizing one's kin based on smell and likeness to one's self.
- What are contextual clues?
- Clues used to recognize one's kin, such as proximity or familiarity.
- When is food sharing most common?
- Among kin.
- When is grooming most common?
- Among kin.
- Why is grooming beneficial?
- Wounds are cleaned, parasites are removed, and friendly relationships can develop.
- What are the three conditions of reciprocal altruism?
- that individuals must have opportunity to interact often, have the ability to keep track of support, provide support only to those who help them.
- What is the theory of reciprocal altruism?
- That altruism can evolve if altruistic acts are balanced between partners.