Describe Darwinian logic as it relates to animal behavior, distinguish between "How" and "Why" questions regarding animal behavior, formulate and test hypotheses relating to questions about animal behavior, distinguish between proximate and ultimate explanations in animal behavior, define and distinguish between instinctive and learned behaviors and describe the advantages of each, identify common misconceptions about instinct and learning, describe the relationship between genetics and the evolution of behavior in human and non human animals, describe the development of sexual differences in behavior among animals, define developmental homeostasis and explain its adaptive value in the social behavior of human and non human animals, describe the organization of animal behavior including the roles of the nervous system, the endocrine system and behavioral cycles and rhythms, explain how the study of fossils and comparison of the behaviors of living animal species are used to track the history of behavior, describe the adaptationist approach to behavior al ecology, describe methods for testing ultimate hypotheses in behavioral biology, explain habitat selection and compare and contrast hypotheses explaining why animals may leave one home site for another, identify and describe the costs and benefits of migration and territoriality and perform a cost/benefits analysis on one or more selected species, outline and describe the ecology of feeding behavior including active and ambush predation, competition, and the costs and benefits of social carnivory, outline and describe Optimality theory and cite examples from nature which support and which fail to support this theory, describe the evolution of anti-predator behavior in social species, outline and describe the evolutionary development of sexual reproduction, describe parental investment and indicate hypotheses as to why female rather than male animals are more likely to provide parental care for the young, identify and describe male and female reproductive tactics and explain why they are often different, identify and describe common mating systems and indicate hypotheses to explain the different rates of occurrence for each type of system, identify and explain the costs and benefits of sociality, identify and describe the types of helpful behavior and trace the evolution of these behaviors, outline the major premises of sociobiology and review the major controversies and misconceptions related to this perspective, and explain human territorial, sexual, and parental behaviors from a sociobiological perspective.
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