Exam 8: Problems of Kinship

Sibling conflicts stem from __________.

The grandmother hypothesis __________.

Buss argues that __________.

Why would it be adaptive to be able to detect kinship between people you are not related to?

Daly, Salmon, and Wilson state that in all societies __________.

Based on certainty of relatedness to grandchildren, __________ should invest more than ___________.

Selection will favor adaptations for helping kin in proportion to ______________.

___________ score lower on measures of family solidarity and identity than ___________.

Using Hamilton's rule, __________.

Individuals maintain greater vigilance over the mating relationships of __________.

Newborns who are breastfed __________.

Reasonable interpretations of findings from wills include all of the following except __________.

Parental conflict centers on __________.

An implication of inclusive fitness theory on familial relations is that __________.

Which of the following statements about birth order is true?

Gaulin, McBurney and Brakeman-Wartell found that ___________ invest more than ___________.

The fact that only genes that code for traits that fulfill Hamilton's rule can spread throughout the population is also known as the __________.

Of the three hypotheses that Sherman offered to explain calling in ground squirrels, the ______________ received the most empirical support.

Smith, Kish and Crawford found that __________.

Studies that use masking methods on photographs have determined that __________.