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Lecturer(s)
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Tkadlec Emil, prof. MVDr. CSc.
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Course content
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Evolution by natural selection, group selection, biotic adaptations, evidence for evolution, transformism. Adaptation, constraint, adaptationism. Phenotypic plasticity, continuous variation in characters, causes. Phenotypic and genotypic value, average effect of a gene, breeding value, additive genetic variation. Heritability and estimation methods. Trade-off and optimization. Cost of reproduction, residual reproductive value. Lack's hypothesis on the most productive clutch size. Age at first reproduction. Reproductive strategies and effort. Semelpary a iteropary, Cole's paradox. Variation in sex ratio, Fisher's principle, Kolman's and Verner's hypotheses. Trivers-Willard model. LMC, LRC, LRE models. Evolution of aging (senescence). Demography and matrix models, sensitivity, elasticity. Evolution of cooperation, Hamilton's rule, eusociality. ESS, game theory, prisoner's dilemma.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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The course aims at presenting actual information and procedures from the branch. Major approaches, conceptual and theoretical topics are listed in syllabus.
Knowledge Identity the basic life-history traits and trade-offs Describe evolution of the basic life-history traits and trade-offs
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Prerequisites
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The students passed the exam from population ecology.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam
Exam - good knowledge and orientation in modern theory of life histories on selected subjects
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Recommended literature
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BULMER, M. (1994). Theoretical evolutionary Ecology.. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
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Caswell H. (2001). Matrix Population Models.
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Falconer DS. (1993). Introduction to quantitative genetics.
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Krebs J. R. & Davies N. B. (1993). An introduction to behavioural ecology.
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Ridley, M. (1993). Evolution.. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 670 pp.
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ROFF, D.A. (1992). The evolution of life histories. Theory and analysis.. Chapman & Hall, New York.
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Tkadlec E. Populační ekologie: struktura, růst a dynamika populací..
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