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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Social behaviour includes all kind of interaction between individuals of the same species.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Interactions are classified by how they affect the fitnesses of the two individuals.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Cooperation and selfishness both benefit the donor and therefore should be favoured by natural selection.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Evolution might favor traits that benefit the population or species, When one individual’s behavior benefits another, the behavior is cooperative.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

When the fitness interests of two individuals are different, they are in conflict.

The evolution of cooperation and conflict depends on when these kinds of behaviors are favored by natural selection.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Selfish (cheater) genotypes are expected to increase within populations, a trait that benefits the group would have to evolve by selection among groups, rather than by selection among individual organisms within the groups.