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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The gender ratio is ___________ as an evolutionary pressure in humans.
(a) Harmful.
(b) Undeniable.
(c) Weak.
(d) Strong.

2. What is the male to female ratio?
(a) 1:3.
(b) 1:2.
(c) 2:1.
(d) 1:1.

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

4. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?
(a) Sexual Reproduction.
(b) Same-sex Reproduction.
(c) Asexual reproduction.
(d) Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.

5. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?
(a) Parasites and diseases.
(b) Killing ones own organisms.
(c) Accidents.
(d) Death and destruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?

2. What does the story in Chapter 5 prove for the author?

3. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?

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

5. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?

(see the answer key)

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