Course: Introduction to Ethology, Behavior Ecology and Sociobiology

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Course title Introduction to Ethology, Behavior Ecology and Sociobiology
Course code KBI/E117
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Jozífková Eva, doc. RNDr. Ph.D. et Ph.D.
Course content
1. the roots of ethology, behavioral ekology and sociobiology Tinbergen´s four questions, ultimative nad proximanive causation 2. adaptation, fitness, fitness cost x benefits, strategy, tactics, heredity of behaviour, altruism 3. ethology: Lorenz, Tinbergen, von Frisch, ethology terms 4. neural x humoral regulation, decision making, aggression 5. social behaviour, hierarchy, 6. social systems, mating systems 7. sexual behavior, alternative reproduction strategy parent-parent conflict 8. parental behaviour, parental investment, parent-offspring conflict, offspring -offspring conflict, helpers, infanticide, sex ratio 9. maintenance behavior I. 10. maintenance behavior II. 11. signals and communication 12. ontogeny, play, learning, memory, nurture versus nature, personality 13. normality and "abnormal behaviour", human ethology 14. evolutionary psychology

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
Introduction to ethology, behavioral ecology and sociobiology, basic terms, and principles connected to the behaviour at these fields of study with examples explaining both animal and human behaviour. (The chapters containing human ethology and evolutionary psychology are included.)

Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Recommended literature
  • Alcock J. Animal behavior. 10th edition. PalgravreMacmillan, 2013..
  • Buss D. Evolutionary Psychology. The New Science of the Mind, Fifth Edition, 5th edition Psychology Press; 2014.
  • Davies N.B., Krebs J.R. An intorduction to behavioral Ecology (4 th edition) Behavioural Ecology An Evolutionary Approach. Willey-Blackwell, 2012..
  • Manning A., Dawkins M. S. An introduction to animal behaviour. 6th etidion Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012..
  • Wilson E.O. Sociology. The Abridged Edition. Harvard University Press, USA, 1998..
  • Wyatt T. D. Animal Behaviour. A very short introduction. Oxford University Press. 2017.


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