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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What accusation does the author make against women?
(a) They like making men's lives difficult.
(b) They hate seeing men happy.
(c) They enjoy adulterous affairs.
(d) They wish to spend all of a man's money.

3. When it is difficult or costly for female birds to choose males, females will choose ___________.
(a) Based on having the most food.
(b) The prettiest beak.
(c) The male with the nicest wing span.
(d) Based on ornamentation.

4. Ever since _____________ in the late 19th century, scientists have understood that all life forms are a product of biological evolution.
(a) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(b) Russel Wallace.
(c) Richard Dawkins.
(d) Charles Darwin.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?

4. Why do genes exist?

5. From this, what seems clear?

(see the answer key)

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