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Studies if nonhuman primate behavior?

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May provide valuable insights into human behavioral evolution

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Dominance hierarchies?

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Impose a certain amount of order within a group

3
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Mounting as an expression of dominance in baboons is believed to also serve to?

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Defuse tense situations

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In old world monkeys, the swelling and changes in the color of the skin surrounding the female’s genital area?

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In an indication of estrus

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Permanent male-female bonds are?

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Not common among nonhuman primates

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Polygynous

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Mating system in which males have several mating partners

One male-multiple female

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Polyandry

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Mating system in which females have several mating partners

One female- multiple male

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Infanticide

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Has been reported for a number of species

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Social structure

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The composition, size, and sex ration of a group of animals

The result of natural selection in a specific habitat and it guides individual interactions and social relationships

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Life history traits

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Characteristics and developmental stages that influence reproductive rates

Ex: age of sexual maturity

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According to proponents of behavioral ecology?

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Behaviors have evolved through the operation of natural selection

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Communication

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Any act that conveys information, in the form of a message to another individual

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Biological continuum

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Refers to the fact that organisms are related through common ancestry and that behaviors and traits seen in one species are also seen in others to varying degrees

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Sexual selection

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A type of natural selection that operate on only one sex within a species

Result of competition for mates and it can lead to sexual dimorphism with regard to one or more traits