What is status?

  • By design, evolution optimises for survivability. Survivability is composed of two major things-
    • organism surviving itself by way of basic needs like food, shelter, safety, etc.
    • passing of the genes by way of reproduction
  • Reproduction in a bulk of organisms happens by way of sexual reproduction that requires mating partners (most of the times).
  • In order to attract mating partners, species of different organisms develop traits and techniques to signal to their sexual counterparts to participate in reproduction.

Examples

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  • Niko Tinbergen’s herring gull experiment
  • B F Skinner’s pigeon experiment