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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would the author like us to believe concerning nature versus nurture?
(a) Instead of being competitive, the two are complementary to each other.
(b) Nurture is more influential than nature.
(c) Nature is more influential than nurture.
(d) The two compete.

2. "The first is that all of human behavior is ______ and hence, biological evolution will have little effect on the next generation."
(a) Understood.
(b) Learned.
(c) Regrettable.
(d) Practiced.

3. Humans tend to be natural _________ who are able to predict and read the intentions of other people fairly easily.
(a) Emotionalists.
(b) Psychologists.
(c) Hunters.
(d) Gathers.

4. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Russel Wallace.

5. What are transposons?
(a) Out law genes.
(b) Weaker genes.
(c) Diseases.
(d) Viruses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?

2. In the author's opinion, what is not the primary goal of an organism?

3. Are there strong taboos against cousin marriage?

4. How does the Red Queen begin?

5. How do males fantasize?

(see the answer key)

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