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Richard Maier is an American ethologist and psychologist who dedicated his career to understanding the function and evolution of behavior. Unlike purely lab-based behaviorists, Maier insisted that you cannot understand why a lizard performs a push-up display or why a wolf howls without asking two fundamental questions: How did this behavior evolve (phylogeny)? How does this behavior help the animal survive and reproduce in its current environment (adaptation)? Comportamiento Animal: Un Enfoque Evolutivo y Ecológico –
3.2 Mating Systems and Sexual Selection
- Causation (Mechanism): What internal stimuli (hormones, nerves) trigger the behavior?
- Development (Ontogeny): How does the behavior change as the animal grows?
- Function (Adaptation): How does the behavior increase fitness (survival and reproduction)?
- Evolution (Phylogeny): How did the behavior evolve from ancestral species?