Description:
| Aims: To develop an understanding of sexual selection, and to explore how the antagonistic interests of males and females have shaped their behaviour, ecology and evolution.
Learning Outcomes: After taking this course the student should be able to:
* demonstrate a systematic knowledge on the origin and the basic principles of sexual conflict;
* analyse the relationship of sexual conflict to a variety of behavioural strategies such as mate choice, mating systems and parental care;
* critically evaluate the implications of sexual conflict for behaviour, ecology and phylogeny.
Skills: Learning and studying T/F/A, Written communication T/F/A, Oral communication T/F/A, Information handling & retrieval T/F/A, Working independently T/F.
Content: This course comprises of a series of lectures and group discussions. The topics will include the origin of sexual conflict; mate choice, mating systems and parental care; the influences of natural and sexual selection on sexual size dimorphism; the implications of sexual conflict for speciation and extinction.
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