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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hazard does the author identify in killing a rival?
(a) Others might try to revenge the rival.
(b) The attacker might be ostracized for killing the rival.
(c) The rival will no longer be able to cooperate to protect against enemies.
(d) A stronger rival might take the rival's place.

2. What does Wynne-Edwards believe about birth rates?
(a) Birth rates are controlled by a combination of species and individual needs.
(b) Species might regulate birth rates for individuals.
(c) Individuals might purposefully reduce birth rates for the good of the species.
(d) Birth rates will always increase unless environmental factors intervene.

3. What does Wynne-Edwards teach?
(a) That evolution is only partially responsible for behaviors.
(b) That group behaviors are evolved and individual behaviors are incidental.
(c) That individuals strive for individual success within the group.
(d) That groups of animals evolved for the good of the group.

4. What would molecules that grouped and built protective walls around themselves become?
(a) Plants.
(b) Inorganic materials.
(c) Animals.
(d) Single-celled organisms.

5. What is a "war of attrition" based on in ESS?
(a) The amount of will and effort it takes to achieve a goal.
(b) How many possible routes there are to a particular goal.
(c) How often a goal will be abandoned.
(d) How much time and energy a goal is worth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, what does the bookshelf represent?

2. What does Wynne-Edwards suggest that animals do to communicate overpopulation?

3. Which cells in an organism contain the creature's DNA?

4. How does Dawkins argue for communication being selfish?

5. What game, played by computers, does Dawkins use as an example of things that can happen automatically based on rules?

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