The Study of Behavior in Natural Environments from an Evolutionary

question 32

Multiple Choice

The study of behavior in natural environments from an evolutionary perspective is called:

• A) ethology.
• B) animal behavior.
• C) behavioral ecology.
• D) behavioral ethology.
• E) direct fitness.

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Definitions:

Continuous Probability

Describes the likelihood of outcomes in situations where the range of possible values is an interval, allowing for any value within the range.

Discrete Random Variable

A variable that takes on a countable number of distinct values, often representing outcomes of a random process.

Expected Value

This is the mean of a random variable, representing the average outcome we would expect to see if we could repeat an experiment an infinite number of times.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.