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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a landscape what will girls pick out as being important?
(a) Memories.
(b) Voices.
(c) Objects.
(d) People.

2. What have anthropologists found to be a universal characteristic of humans across different cultures?
(a) Depression.
(b) Desire.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Hate.

3. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?
(a) No one.
(b) Their spouses.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Their descendants.

4. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?
(a) Causes too much risk in the genes.
(b) Makes stronger genes.
(c) Increases randomness of the genome.
(d) Decreases randomness of the genome.

5. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
(a) No one can catch up.
(b) World War II.
(c) People will try to kill one another so that their genes may carry on.
(d) Once an advantage is gained, the loser will adapt to negate the advantage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?

2. When is maleness a reproductive advantage?

3. What did Zahavi, a scientist, theorize about reproduction mating?

4. "The first is that all of human behavior is ______ and hence, biological evolution will have little effect on the next generation."

5. Ever since _____________ in the late 19th century, scientists have understood that all life forms are a product of biological evolution.

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