The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of success does evolution care about?
(a) Survival success.
(b) Sexual rather than survival success.
(c) Natural selection.
(d) Biological evolution.

2. What is most male to male battle over in tribes?
(a) Women.
(b) Land.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.

3. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.
(a) A new way for humans to mate.
(b) The reason for asexual reproduction.
(c) A reason for an individual organism to prefer sexual over asexual reproduction.
(d) Why people are attracted to one another.

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

5. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?
(a) Viruses.
(b) Fission.
(c) Asexual reproduction.
(d) Sex.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the lottery theory?

3. How do males harm themselves?

4. Unlike other primates, humans do not publicly display their __________.

5. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?

(see the answer key)

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