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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the tangled bank theory?

2. When it is difficult or costly for female birds to choose males, females will choose ___________.

3. How do organisms compete during evolution?

4. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?

5. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do sperm sometimes kill the egg?

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

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

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

5. To what is the human genome often compared?

6. What is interesting about the creator of the Vicar of Bray creator?

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

8. After the Vicar of Bray theory, what did scientists try to prove?

9. Why do genes exist in the first place?

10. Who changed the discussions concerning evolution after the 19th century?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Ridley think that intelligence and language developed between human beings? Does he think that without this prompting, there would be no language?

Essay Topic 2

Male Australian turkeys build spectacular mounds. They build these mounds to attract females. When a female shares a mound with a turkey, she is saying she will give him offspring. In this case, how have mound building skills changed?

What has now become important about mound building skills?

Essay Topic 3

Who developed the Red Queen Theory and what does the theory say? How does the Red Queen Theory assert itself throughout the history of animals? Give an example of how the Red Queen Theory works.

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