EE BIOL C126Behavioral Ecology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 4 or 8 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Recommended: course 129. Offered either as 4-unit quarter-long course or as 8-unit Field Biology Quarter course. Evolutionary perspective of behavioral ecology, with extended consideration of selfish DNA, conflict with genomes, natural selection and coevolution, kin selection and diversity in group functioning and cooperation, social learning, game theory and alternative life histories, and human behavioral ecology. Eight-unit course covers several major areas in animal behavior more broadly, including foraging, sexual selection and predator-prey interactions in five intensive weeks, followed by extended field trip where students do individual projects. Concurrently scheduled with course C242.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course 100, Life Sciences 1 or 7B, Mathematics 3C or 32A or Life Sciences 30B.
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needs reviewconfidence 0.90 · from text- · "LIFESCI 1" is not in this catalog version
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EE BIOL C126
- EE BIOL 100Introduction to Ecology and Behavior
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
5 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 12 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.