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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tends to stay private between humans?
(a) Sex.
(b) Money.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Child-bearing.

2. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?
(a) The King's Theory.
(b) The Red Queen Theory.
(c) The tangled bank and lottery theory have no competition.
(d) The Blue Book Theory.

3. The author believes that biological evolution and our environments _____________.
(a) Cannot possibly ever work together.
(b) Are not compareable.
(c) Work together to change us.
(d) Are in constant competition.

4. What is a common suggestion for why people need intelligence?
(a) Slow instincts.
(b) The desire to look better than others.
(c) Ability to improve themseleves.
(d) Learning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tangled bank theory?

2. How does evolution work?

3. What do male primates do to their female's children who are not also their children?

4. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.

5. What are the human female's interest concerning reproduction and mating?

(see the answer key)

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