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#Question id: 3454

Altruism is favoured when rb - c > 0 where c is fitness cost to altruist, b is fitness benefit to recipient; and r is genetic relatedness. It is under negative selection when

#Section 2: Evolution

  1. Indirect fitness benefits that exceed direct fitness costs.

  2. rb is greater than c

  3. It generates indirect benefit by enhancing survivorship of kin.

  4. Genetic relatedness is less than c/b

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#Question id: 12438

#Section 1: Ecology

____ is likely to lead to a situation in which the size of a population fluctuates wildly.
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#Question id: 12151

#Section 2: Evolution

The basic model of metapopulation dynamics predicts a shifting mosaic of occupied and unoccupied sites under which of the following combinations of extinction (E) and colonization (C) rates? 
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#Question id: 16804

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

Which of the following is a symptom of altitude sickness?
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#Question id: 11251

#Section 1: Ecology

The highest grade of sociality in the animal world is called:
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#Question id: 3439

#Section 2: Evolution

Male insects attempt to mate with orchids but eventually stop responding to them. What term best applies to this behavior?