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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. What shape is the location where guillemots lay their eggs?
(a) Jagged.
(b) Hilly.
(c) Rough and grassy.
(d) Flat.

5. What does Wynne-Edwards say happens when other animals communicate to the species that there is overpopulation?
(a) The animals claim larger territories.
(b) The animals have fewer young.
(c) The animals attack others' young.
(d) The animals store extra food.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dawkins argue for communication being selfish?

2. What does the author compare nerves to?

3. What example of the type of valued human behavior that perhaps influences people to believe in group selection does Dawkins give?

4. What does Medawar's study conclude?

5. In Dawkins' description, how does a bully behave?

(see the answer key)

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