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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. The author then considers the nearly uniquely human feature of female estrus?
(a) It is non-existent.
(b) It is very visible.
(c) It is hidden.
(d) It is useless.

2. What did Charles Darwin realize about many organisms' traits?
(a) They sometimes have survival benefits.
(b) They always have survival benefits.
(c) They often have survival benefits.
(d) They do not appear to give any survival benefit, and some are adverse to survival.

3. One of the most intriguing results of this analysis is the observation of ___________________________.
(a) Coronation coefficients.
(b) Coronation components.
(c) Correlation components.
(d) Correlation coefficients.

4. About 200,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have diverged into two distinct lineages usually known as what?
(a) Homo erectus.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) Cro-Magnon man.
(d) Homo sapiens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Neanderthals apparently master?

2. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?

3. This view on sexual strategies is completely consistent with what?

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

5. 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.

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