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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
(a) People will try to kill one another so that their genes may carry on.
(b) World War II.
(c) No one can catch up.
(d) Once an advantage is gained, the loser will adapt to negate the advantage.

2. What do males want in sexual partners?
(a) A very young female.
(b) A spontaneous female.
(c) A good mother.
(d) An attractive female.

3. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
(a) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.
(b) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(c) Why there are men and women.
(d) How babies are made.

4. Boys tend to be better at reasoning ______, whereas women excel in reasoning in terms of _______.
(a) Particulars; the abstract.
(b) Abstractly; generalities.
(c) Generalities; particulars.
(d) Abstractly; particulars.

5. What have mound building skills become?
(a) A survival technique.
(b) A coveted skill.
(c) Unimportant.
(d) A reproductive skill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the interests of most males?

2. What causes a man's brain to change in the womb?

3. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?

4. What is a powerful force that is influenced by and influences evolution?

5. What did Zahavi, a scientist, theorize about reproduction mating?

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