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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Females are ______ more likely to have the right kind of orgasm and to become impregnated when unfaithful.
(a) 90 percent.
(b) 70 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 40 percent.

2. Differences hold ___________, regardless of race, ethnicity, or culture.
(a) True.
(b) Only sometimes.
(c) All of the time.
(d) Universal.

3. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?
(a) Causes too much risk in the genes.
(b) Increases randomness of the genome.
(c) Makes stronger genes.
(d) Decreases randomness of the genome.

4. To understand human nature, what must we understand?
(a) Differences in humans.
(b) The origin of attraction between humans.
(c) The origin of human nature.
(d) The origin of emotions.

5. What kind of study does evolution become?
(a) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.
(b) A slow process.
(c) Competition between friends.
(d) How organisms become better over generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tangled bank theory?

2. What are out law genes?

3. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?

4. What is the "good genes" theory?

5. Does it pay to be intelligent and witty?

(see the answer key)

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