Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Washington University in St. Louis/Behavioral Ecology (Fall 2013)/Timeline

Week 1: Evolutionary approach to behavior

 * Readings
 * Dawkins 1-14
 * DKW 1 Natural Selection


 * Assignment
 * 29 Aug. Create account on Wikipedia

Week 2: Hypothesis testing
5 Sept. Test on Dawkins
 * In Class


 * Readings
 * DKW 2 Testing hypotheses


 * Assignment
 * None

Week 3: Resource competition

 * Readings
 * DKW 5 Resource competition


 * Assignment
 * Wikipedia deadline

Week 4: Grouping

 * Readings
 * DKW 6 Groups
 * MT: Schooling in fish.
 * MT: Sharks: solitary or group animals?
 * MT: Alliance formation in bottlenose dolphins.
 * MT: The evolution of intergroup coalitionary aggression in humans.


 * Assignments:
 * Wikipedia deadline

Week 5: Sexual selection, sexual conflict

 * Readings
 * DKW 7 Sexual selection
 * MT: The role of evolution in mating behavior of lekking species.
 * MT: To eat or to mate? Sexual cannibalism in Mantodea and arachnid species
 * MT: Violent mating: traumatic insemination in bed bugs and other cimicids.
 * MT: Sexual conflict and forced copulations lead to the co-evolution of sexual organs in Anas platyrhynchos.


 * Assignments
 * Wikipedia deadline

Week 6: Parental care, conflict

 * Readings
 * DKW 8 Parental care


 * Assignments
 * Wikipedia deadline

Week 7: Mating systems

 * Readings
 * DKW 9 Mating systems


 * Assignments
 * Wikipedia deadline

Week 8: Cooperative breeding

 * Readings
 * DKW 10 Sex allocation


 * Assignments

Week 9: Evolution of altruism

 * Readings
 * DKW 11 Social behavior
 * MT: A marine dwelling eusocial organism: Synalpheus regalis.
 * MT: Evolution of eusociality in Mole-rats


 * Assignments
 * Wikipedia deadline

Week 10: Cooperation

 * Readings
 * DKW 12 Cooperation


 * Assignments
 * Wikipedia deadline

Week 11: Practice sessions for high school workshop

 * Assignments
 * Nov 9th teach high school class

Week 12: Social insects

 * Readings
 * DKW 13 Social insects


 * Assignments
 * Wikipedia deadline

Week 13: Communication

 * Readings
 * DKW 14 Communication
 * MT: Costs and benefits of non-predator eavesdropping in mammal-bird alarm call interactions.
 * MT: Primate alarm calls.
 * MT: Intra-species communication and foraging in social insects.


 * Assignments
 * Wikipedia deadline

Week 15: Human behavior

 * Readings
 * DKW 15, paper assigned later

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