Pre-test (Week 16-17)

Cooperative breeding describes a situation in which several aduts live in a shared brood but tend to individual's offsprings.

• True

• False

Spiteful interaction is an interaction between individuals resulting in a loss of fitness for the actor and increase in fitness for the recipient.

• True

• False

Altruistic behavior describes a behavior that is beneficial or costly to the actor, beneficial to the recipients, and selected for at least in part because the recipient benefits.

• True

• False

Selfish Interaction is an interaction in which the actor gains fitness and the recipient loses fitness.

• True

• False

Spite is a behavior that decreases the fitness of both the actor and the recipient.

• True

• False

Human being has the ability to discern the degree of genetic relatedness of other individuals.

• True

• False

Kin selection is the natural selection based on indirect fitness gains.

• True

• False

Fitness that is due to the production of offspring is called indirect fitness.

• True

• False

Mutually beneficial interaction is an interaction between individuals resulting in increased fitness for both the actor and recipient.

• True

• False

Generosity is an exchange of fitness benefits, separated in time, between two individuals resulting in a net gain for both.

• True

• False