#behavioral biology

• Adaptational — Relating to the process of adaptation, belonging to this mechanism, or serving to achieve it. In evolutionary psychology or sociology, the term describes a behavior, strategy, or structural trait developed specifically to meet the pressing demands of the environment and to increase the chances of integration and survival.
• Agonistic — The feminine form of the term agonistic; designates a conflictual stance, attitude, or competitive display, or historically as a noun, the art and theory of public contests and athletic struggles in ancient Greece.
• Androphilic — A person who exhibits exclusive romantic, aesthetic, or sexual attraction toward adult men or masculinity. In a rare biological or entomological sense, it describes organisms, parasites, or insects that exhibit a structural behavioral preference for male hosts or environments heavily populated by men.
• Androlatress — A person (especially female) who exhibits a blind, exaggerated, and often pathological admiration for men or who unconditionally venerates masculinity and its attributes. In the context of structural social analysis, the term describes a behavior of voluntary psychological subordination to male authority, elevated to the status of a cult.
• Androlatrous — A person who exhibits a blind, exaggerated, and often pathological admiration for men or who unconditionally venerates masculinity and its attributes. In the context of structural social analysis, the term describes a behavior or predisposition of voluntary psychological subordination to male authority, elevated to the status of a cult.
• Androtropy — A biological phenomenon, behavioral orientation, or ecological dynamic characterized by the attraction, structural orientation, or selective migration of certain organisms, parasites, or biological vectors toward male individuals or hosts.