The fitness of an organism includes any of these behaviors except

A. behaviors associated with courtship, sexual selection, and mating.
B. the set of innate behaviors in which animals respond to stimuli.
C. the learned behaviors that animals develop from experience in accessing needed resources.
D. the altruistic behaviors, which place an animal at additional risk for the good of others.
E. an animal's behaviors that promote survival and reproductive success of itself and its kin.


D. the altruistic behaviors, which place an animal at additional risk for the good of others.

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