Animal Behavior +Lab (= BIO 223)

Catalog description

One can explore animal behavior on multiple levels of analysis: ontogenetic (the developmental origins of behavior), phylogenetic (the evolutionary origins of behavior), proximate (the physiology and neurophysiology of behavior), and functional (the fitness consequences of behavior). In Biology 223, we will touch on all of these facets of behavior, but we will focus on functionality - the adaptive significance of behaviors. Prerequisites & Notes BIO 112/114. One laboratory meeting per week. Counts towards the Psychology major as a Research Methods course in the Cognitive/Neuroscience column.