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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Sexual Selection, and the Origin of Human Races.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did a great division in the human lineage occur?
(a) About three billions of years ago.
(b) About three millions of years ago.
(c) About thirteen millions of years ago.
(d) About thirty millions of years ago.

2. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Religion.
(b) Socioeconomic status.
(c) Nearly all physical traits.
(d) Personality.

3. Somewhat less than 100,000 years ago, who replaced the Neanderthals?
(a) Homo habilis.
(b) Homo erectus.
(c) Cro-Magnon man.
(d) Crypton man.

4. Can natural selection explain these traits?
(a) Frequently.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Sometimes.

5. What race was heavily built and physically powerful with a very large brain case?
(a) Homo erectus.
(b) Neanderthal.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Cro-Magnon man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chapter 2 present?

2. Why do races tend to remain established and distinct?

3. What does one of the most instructive avenues of investigation in human sexual attraction involve?

4. Several scientifically rigorous genetic investigations of large populations conclusively demonstrate that roughly ______ percent of human children are not the genetic children of the male parent whom assumes genetic relatedness.

5. Why is human sexuality an unusually developed trait for primates?

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