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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 did Neanderthals apparently master?
(a) Language.
(b) Painting.
(c) Fire.
(d) Creating the wheel.

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

3. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.
(a) Enormously.
(b) Slightly.
(c) Not at all.
(d) Somewhat.

4. What does Chapter 2 present?
(a) A brief overview of human evolution.
(b) A brief overview of chimpanzee evolution.
(c) A detailed description of the first Homo.
(d) A detailed description of Pan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chapter 5 begin by examining?

2. 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.

3. What primates are monogamous and solitary?

4. Eventually A. robustus became extinct and A. africanus gave rise to who?

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

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