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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Evolution of Human Sexuality.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How do scientists know that about four millions of years ago the first proto-human hominids began to walk upright?
(a) The food eaten by the proto-human hominids is different than previous species.
(b) The skeletons of chimpanzees have been found from the same time period.
(c) From analyzing skeletal limb changes discovered in the fossil record.
(d) Footprints have been left by these proto-human hominids.

4. What does the author say about any human trait?
(a) It is very rarely found among other primates.
(b) Only a few other animals have similar traits to humans.
(c) It can be found among other animals but not to the degree exhibited by humans.
(d) It is uniquely human.

5. Why does the author suggest chimps be reclassified as Homo troglodytes and, presumably, Homo paniscus?
(a) Pan precedes Homo in the nomenclature.
(b) Chimps are no longer Pan.
(c) Homo and Pan are the same nomenclature.
(d) Homo precedes Pan in the nomenclature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are humans unique among primates?

2. In Chapter 1, to what is the species Homo sapiens compared and contrasted?

3. The chimp species (Pan troglodytes) shares what percent of its DNA in common with the pygmy chimp species (Pan paniscus)?

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

5. The author then considers the nearly uniquely human feature of female estrus?

(see the answer key)

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