Portfolio of Short Essays - Second Year, second term

A portfolio of some of my tutorial essays from the second term of my second year at Oxford studying Biological Sciences:

1. What advantages and disadvantages arise when decisions have to be made in groups? How might the study of collective animal behaviour help our society?

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2. Discuss the evolution of honest and dishonest animal signals and illustrate with examples

3. Explain how courtship displays evolve and why are they often more exaggerated in males?

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4. Distinguish intra- and inter-locus sexual conflict //
Discuss the causes and consequences of interlocks evolutionary conflict between males and females