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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the tangled bank theory?
(a) Different organisms in an environment saturated with similar organisms have a greater likelihood of survival.
(b) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(c) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.
(d) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually produce.

2. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?
(a) There will be less births overall.
(b) There will be more births overall.
(c) Virgin births will happen to adjust and make more female babies.
(d) More boys will be born, because it is what people want.

3. Who cannot compete with males?
(a) Other males.
(b) Hermaphrodites.
(c) Females.
(d) Masculine females.

4. What is the solution of the individually rational genes?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Gender.
(c) Celibacy.
(d) Asexuality.

5. How do males harm themselves?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Uneasy violence and status games.
(c) Status games.
(d) Uneasy violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the primary part in sexual reproduction?

2. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?

3. When is maleness a reproductive advantage?

4. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.

5. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?

(see the answer key)

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