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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dawkins believe about human population growth?
(a) That human population growth is not a problem.
(b) That humans have no means to limit populations growth.
(c) That human populations growth needs to increase.
(d) That humans should probably limit their population growth.

2. To what does Wynne-Edwards attribute changes to female mice as the population rises?
(a) Random variation within groups.
(b) Natural selection of individuals.
(c) Group selection.
(d) Random variation in individuals.

3. Does Dawkins believe people want to view parental care as different from other evolutionary behaviors?
(a) Yes, but only as it applies to mother-child relationships..
(b) Yes, he believes people want to consider parental care a special case.
(c) No, but Dawkins believes that parental care is a special case.
(d) No, Dawkins believes people can clearly see that parental care fits with evolutionary forces.

4. What response does Dawkins give to the idea that birth control is wrong because it's unnatural?
(a) That birth regulation is an evolutionary adaptation.
(b) That human lifestyle is completely unnatural.
(c) That feeding the poor is also unnatural.
(d) That birth regulation is a survival instinct.

5. What type of math does the author discuss that's used to model how real animals behave in the world?
(a) Game theory.
(b) Probability theory.
(c) Approximation theory.
(d) Chaos theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would molecules that broke down other self-copying molecules and used their parts eventually become?

2. What is the most stable type of behavior in the computer simulations of ESS?

3. What does PI stand for?

4. In Dawkins' game theory analysis of a colony of birds and ticks, what were grudger birds?

5. Why does Dawkins say kind or cooperative behavior arises?

(see the answer key)

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