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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dawkins say removes humanity from the cruel and harsh laws of nature?
(a) Humans create environments that protect them from natural laws.
(b) Humans teach children ways to behave and learn better behaviors as adults.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Humans have developed genes for communication, which allows cooperation.

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

3. What kind of animals does the intruder retreat experiment by Niko Tinbergen use?
(a) Fish.
(b) Rats.
(c) Birds.
(d) Worms.

4. What does the author compare nerves to?
(a) An abacus.
(b) An engine.
(c) A computer.
(d) Electrical wires.

5. What does the study of egg clutch sizes that Dawkins cites show?
(a) That there are detriments and benefits to having a lot of eggs.
(b) That there are only benefits to having a lot of eggs.
(c) That there are only detriments to having a lot of eggs.
(d) That having a lot of eggs is, in the end, exactly the same as having few eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wynne-Edwards say happens when other animals communicate to the species that there is overpopulation?

2. What does the Watt Governor machine regulate?

3. What does longevity provide to an early molecule, according to Dawkins?

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

5. What is the most stable result of the specific ESS simulation Dawkins describes?

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