Reading text: Cooperative foraging
A reading text about cooperative foraging in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors
A worksheet in which students calculate and graph the changes in the frequencies of traits related to cooperative foraging in a population over several generations, exploring the role of variation, fitness consequences and trait inheritance in evolutionary change.
Author: Susan Hanisch
A reading text about cooperative foraging in the animal kingdom and in our early ancestors
In a series of experiments, anthropologists wanted to find out whether chimpanzees and bonobos work together and share a common source of food. Results tell us something about the role of social tolerance in cooperative foraging.
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