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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do males harm themselves?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Uneasy violence.
(c) Status games.
(d) Uneasy violence and status games.

2. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.
(a) Hermaphrodite.
(b) Male.
(c) Female.
(d) Female or male.

3. 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.

4. Who has solutions concerning genetics?
(a) Molecular biologists and geneticists.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Doctors and scientists.
(d) Geneticists.

5. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.
(a) Where humans live.
(b) How they got to be the way they are.
(c) A way to study humans without them knowing.
(d) Why humans are the way they are.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are transposons?

2. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?

3. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?

4. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?

5. In humans, what does evolution rely on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are hermaphrodites unstable?

2. From a biologist's point of view, why is sexual reproduction not as successful as asexual?

3. What does the Martian visitor that observes Earth wonder about?

4. What is interesting about the mating skills of the Australian bush turkeys?

5. Why is the history of evolution a never ending arms race?

6. What is a bdelloid rotifer?

7. What secondary quality do men look for in women?

8. Why is the book named after the Red Queen?

9. How would a pre-Darwin think explain why giraffes have long necks?

10. Explain the story of the fisherman.

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