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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How common are genes that cause altruistic behaviors in nature?
(a) They are vast majority of genes.
(b) They are nonexistent.
(c) They are extremely rare.
(d) They are pretty common.

2. What does ESS stand for?
(a) Evolutionarily Successful Strategy.
(b) Evolutionary Stable Strategy.
(c) Environmental Secure Strategy.
(d) Engineered Survival Strategy.

3. What apparently selfish act of gulls does the author describe?
(a) Fighting for fish.
(b) Eating others' baby chicks.
(c) Stealing another gull's nest.
(d) "Ditching" the rest of the flock when a predator is spotted.

4. What chance does a parent have of giving a particular gene to a child?
(a) A sixty percent chance.
(b) A forty percent chance.
(c) A thirty percent chance.
(d) A fifty percent chance.

5. What does the Watt Governor machine appear to do?
(a) Talk.
(b) Scream.
(c) Cry.
(d) Think.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape is the location where guillemots lay their eggs?

2. What mixture tends to arrive in ESS simulations of multiple types of behavior?

3. What would give longevity to early self-duplicating molecules, according to Dawkins?

4. What apparently selfish act of the penguin does the author describe?

5. What does Dawkins say points to the idea that all living things come from the same types of early molecules?

(see the answer key)

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