ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

classical ethology:Evolutionary theory applied to human behavior, the ethogrqam, observational methods, field data collection and analysis methods, behavior genetics, environment and behavior, evolution of signals and communication, evolution of language.
eco-ethology: Comparative method, multiple hypothesis method, feeding strategies, territory and predation defense, optimization theory, evolutionary stable strategies, social behavior and theory of games.
etology and sociobiology: theory of evolution applied to sociality and adaptive value of sociality, eusociality, comparative perspective of primate sociality.
Reproductive strategies and sexuality: partenogenesis and sexuality, origin of sexual behavior, parental strategies and reproductive investment, reproductive disinvestment, infanticide, and mating strategies such as polygyny, promisquity, monogamy and poliandry.