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Ch 1. Evolutionary Theory & Natural Selection {{cp.topicAssetIdToProgress[43336].percentComplete}}% complete

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Lesson 1 - Theories of Evolution: Lamarck vs. Darwin	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[419].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[419].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 2 - Natural Selection & Adaptation: Definition, Theory & Examples	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[425].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[425].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 1 - Types of Studies in Behavioral Genetics: Twin, Family & Adoption	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[77].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[77].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 2 - How Genetics and the Environment Interact in Human Development	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[18837].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[18837].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 3 - Genotype-Environment Interaction and Phenotypic Plasticity	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[14417].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[14417].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 4 - Hormones: Definition, Function & Intro to the Endocrine System	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[3983].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[3983].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 5 - Endocrine System Function & Hormone Regulation	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[18].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[18].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 6 - The HPG Axis: Hormones of Male Reproduction	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[3145].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[3145].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 7 - HPG Axis: Hormonal Control of the Ovarian Cycle	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2891].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2891].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 1 - The Environment, Levels of Ecology and Ecosystems	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[405].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[405].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 2 - Ecosystems, Habitats and Ecological Niches	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[410].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[410].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 3 - The Laws of Thermodynamics	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[284].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[284].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 4 - Global Ecology: Definition and Overview	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[8537].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[8537].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 5 - What is Biodiversity? - Definition and Relation to Ecosystem Stability	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[8538].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[8538].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 6 - Food Chains, Trophic Levels and Energy Flow in an Ecosystem	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[414].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[414].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 7 - Biogeochemical Cycling and the Phosphorus Cycle	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[407].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[407].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 8 - The Nitrogen Cycle, Acid Rain and Fossil Fuels	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[408].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[408].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 9 - The Carbon Cycle and Long-Term Carbon Storage	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[406].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[406].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 10 - Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, and Global Warming	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2366].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2366].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 1 - Biomes: Desert, Tropical Rainforest, Savanna, Coral Reefs & More	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[415].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[415].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 2 - Biomes: Tundra, Taiga, Temperate Grassland, and Coastlines	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2367].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2367].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 3 - Primary Productivity of Biomes	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[8539].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[8539].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 4 - Ecological Succession: From Pioneer to Climax Communities	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[416].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[416].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 5 - Succession in Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecosystems	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[8540].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[8540].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 1 - Behavior: Definition & Explanation	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2660].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2660].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 2 - Animal Behavior: Innate vs. Learned	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[37261].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[37261].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 3 - Interspecific Competition, Competitive Exclusion & Niche Differentiation	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2177].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2177].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 4 - Predator/Prey Interactions, Camouflage, Mimicry & Warning Coloration	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2175].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2175].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 5 - Symbiotic Relationships: Mutualism, Commensalism & Parasitism	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[413].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[413].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 6 - Populations: Density, Survivorship and Life Histories	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2178].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2178].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 7 - Carrying Capacity, Migration & Dispersion	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[411].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[411].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 8 - Dispersal, Colonization, and Island Biogeography	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[417].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[417].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 9 - Conservation Biology, Habitat Fragmentation, and Metapopulations	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2369].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2369].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 10 - How Introduced and Invasive Species Alter Ecological Balance	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2173].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2173].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 11 - How Animals Communicate: Chemical, Visual & Electrical Signals	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[13818].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[13818].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 12 - The Circadian Rhythm	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[13817].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[13817].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 13 - Optimality Models: Animal Behavior & the Optimal Foraging Theory	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[43342].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[43342].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 1 - Overview of Animal Reproduction and Development	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[385].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[385].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 2 - Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction: Comparison & Characteristics	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[684].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[684].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 3 - Sexual Selection & Mate Choice in Animals	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[43344].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[43344].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 4 - Mate Choice & Marriage: Factors in the Selection Process	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[26824].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[26824].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 5 - Animal Mating Systems	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[43345].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[43345].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 6 - Parenting Styles: Authoritarian, Permissive & Neglectful	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[73].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[73].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 7 - Family and Kinship: Patrilocality, Matrilocality & Neolocality	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2780].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[2780].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 8 - Kinship Types: Lineal, Collateral & Affinal Kin	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[26827].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[26827].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 1 - Classical Conditioning in Psychology: Definition, Principles & Examples	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[33].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[33].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 2 - Psychologist John Watson & the Little Albert Experiment	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[34].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[34].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 3 - Operant Conditioning in Psychology: Definition, Theory & Examples	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[35].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[35].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 4 - What is Shaping in Psychology? - Definition & Examples	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[144].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[144].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 5 - Schedules of Reinforcement in Psychology: Continous & Partial	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[36].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[36].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 6 - Observational vs. Insight Learning: Albert Bandura & Wolfgang Kohler	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[38].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[38].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 7 - Biological Limits on Conditioning: Taste Aversion, the Garcia Effect & Instincts	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[39].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[39].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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Lesson 8 - Mimicry in Animals: Definition & Examples	Score: {{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[28529].bestScoreCorrect}}/{{cp.lessonAssetIdToProgress[28529].bestScoreQuestions}} Take Quiz Optional
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In this course, you'll learn the answers to questions including:

How do I define the theory of evolution?
What is the relationship between genetics and the environment in human development?
How do I describe how reaction norms explain behavior?
What are ecosystems?
How is biodiversity related to ecosystem stability?
What is the carbon cycle?
How do I describe the various biomes?
What is the difference between innate and learned animal behavior?
What is habit fragmentation?
How does an invasive species alter ecological balance?
What is asexual reproduction?
What are kinship types?
What is operant conditioning?

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