Ecology 7th Edition by Manuel Molles

Exercise 17

One of the basic assumptions of the material presented in chapter 8 is that the form of reproduction will exert substantial influence on social interactions within a species. How might interactions differ in populations that reproduce asexually versus ones that engage in sexual reproduction How might having separate sexes versus hermaphrodites affect the types of social interactions within a population How should having several forms of one sex, for example, large and small males, influence the diversity of behavioral interactions within the population