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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Male human beings expect to have their _______ compete with the ________ of other males.
(a) Love.
(b) Attractiveness.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Sperm.

2. Are individuals involved in evolution aware of the choices they are making?
(a) Always.
(b) Ten per cent of the time.
(c) Fifty per cent of the time.
(d) Never.

3. What do scientists want to discover about genetic mixing?
(a) How to make genetic mixing more reliable.
(b) Why cloning is more successful than genetic mixing.
(c) Why genetic mixing is better than cloning oneself.
(d) How to make genetic mixing affordable.

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

5. Most modern societies are _________.
(a) Polygamous.
(b) Uncivilized.
(c) Fundamentalist.
(d) Monogamous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is this book called The Red Queen?

2. Who created the tangled bank theory?

3. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?

4. What have anthropologists found to be a universal characteristic of humans across different cultures?

5. High status individuals tend to have __________.

(see the answer key)

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