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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. What is the correlation for same-race mating?
(a) +0.3.
(b) +0.5.
(c) +0.2.
(d) +0.9.

2. How is this purely biological viewpoint on sexual encounters enormously complicated?
(a) By the changes in human desires throughout the centuries.
(b) By numerous asymmetrical social constructions.
(c) By the evolution of a polygamous desire to one that is monogamous.
(d) By contrasting research results.

3. What primates are monogamous and solitary?
(a) Gibbons.
(b) Gorillas.
(c) Chimpanzees.
(d) Apes.

4. In most primates, sexually receptive females exhibit what?
(a) Aggressive behaviors.
(b) Brightly colored and swollen genitalia.
(c) Hidden estrus.
(d) Certain behaviors.

5. How are humans unique among primates?
(a) The are isolated and monogamous.
(b) They perform sexual acts frequently.
(c) They are both social and polygamous.
(d) They are both social and monogamous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Somewhat less than 100,000 years ago, who replaced the Neanderthals?

2. Why can men supposedly enjoy extra-marital sex with a minimum of consequences?

3. When did a great division in the human lineage occur?

4. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?

5. Why must women be highly selective in extra-marital sexual partners?

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