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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the relatedness calculations in the book, how closely related is an individual to a cousin?
(a) One.
(b) One-quarter.
(c) One-eighth.
(d) One-sixth.

2. What would molecules that started to manufacture energy using the sun eventually become?
(a) Single-celled organisms.
(b) Plants.
(c) Animals.
(d) Inorganic materials.

3. According to the relatedness calculations in the book, how much more closely related is a child to a sibling than a half-sibling?
(a) The child is four times as closely related to the sibling.
(b) The child is twice as closely related to the sibling.
(c) The child is three times as closely related to the sibling.
(d) The child is one an a half times as closely related to the sibling.

4. What mixture tends to arrive in ESS simulations of multiple types of behavior?
(a) A mix of retaliators, bullies, and hawks.
(b) A mix of retaliators, doves, and prober-retaliators.
(c) A mix of proper-retaliators, hawks, and doves.
(d) A mix of hawks, doves, and bullies.

5. What fundamental question does Dawkins want to consider?
(a) Why do people exist?
(b) Why does DNA exist?
(c) Why do genes exist?
(d) Why do molecules exist?

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Wynne-Edwards attribute changes to female mice as the population rises?

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

3. How does Dawkins characterize the natural world in his discussion of selfishness?

4. In Dawkins' description, how does a retaliator behave?

5. How does a mother protecting a child promote the selfish gene theory?

(see the answer key)

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