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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.
(a) Low pregnancy rate.
(b) High pregnancy rate.
(c) Slow genetics of men.
(d) Evolutionary arms race.

3. In humans, what does evolution rely on?
(a) Fission.
(b) Asexual reproduction.
(c) Sexual Reproduction.
(d) Sexual and asexual reproduction.

4. Who developed the Red Queen theory?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Leigh Van Valen.
(d) Graham Bell.

5. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?
(a) Weak and strong genes.
(b) Weak genes.
(c) Genes too similar to their parents.
(d) A different bag of genes from their parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main focus of the novel?

2. Who created the tangled bank theory?

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

4. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?

5. What is the tangled bank theory?

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