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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. What do genes provide?

2. How do males fantasize?

3. Humans tend to be natural _________ who are able to predict and read the intentions of other people fairly easily.

4. Incest is most prevalent between___________.

5. Homosexual men tend to be like __________ men and lesbians tend to be more like _______ women.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why else must men be intelligent?

2. Why is male on male violence so detrimental?

3. When Ridley says that male and female brains are different, what type of tone does he have?

4. What do studies on the pine mole show about the differences between male and female pine mole minds?

5. What happens to children that do not learn language early?

6. Why are societies no longer polygamous?

7. In what societies and religions did polygamy flourish long ago?

8. What is different between humans and primates?

9. When does sexual aversion to one's family occur?

10. What happens if a man thinks his female has been cheating?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In your own words, define gene outcrossing. How does sexual reproduction cause gene outcrossing to occur? Why is gene outcrossing a positive thing for many populations?

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

Although sexual reproduction is very expensive for species that partake in it, explain why asexual reproduction is less successful than sexual reproduction. List out the specific positives of participating in sexual reproduction. List the negative reasons for sexual reproduction.

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