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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?
(a) There will be more births overall.
(b) Virgin births will happen to adjust and make more female babies.
(c) More boys will be born, because it is what people want.
(d) There will be less births overall.

2. What is the main focus of the novel?
(a) To study asexual reproduction.
(b) To understand the advances in same-sex reproduction.
(c) To compare sexual and asexual reproduction.
(d) Parts of human nature are products of sexual selection.

3. Why does the author think that there is now so much monogamy in humans?
(a) It is much less expensive.
(b) Man's competitor in the sexual arms race (women) want it.
(c) It is easier to be in a relationship with one person.
(d) Males and females want to focus on one set of children.

4. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.
(a) Expensive.
(b) Unnecessary
(c) Annoying.
(d) Risky.

5. What is the "Machiavellian" hypothesis?
(a) Protect yourself at all costs, even if you must kill your neighbor.
(b) Humans will never scheme against one another.
(c) Humans need greater and greater intelligence to scheme better than their neighbors and rivals.
(d) Neighbors and fellow humans are always against you.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the male to female ratio?

2. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?

3. How do organisms compete during evolution?

4. What animals are only interested in exclusive fidelity?

5. The gender ratio is ___________ as an evolutionary pressure in humans.

(see the answer key)

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