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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, How We Pick Our Mates and Sex Partners.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the size ratio between a male and female in monogamous species?
(a) They are usually the same size.
(b) The female is usually larger than the male.
(c) The male is usually larger than the female.
(d) The size is not of importance.

2. When do chimps, humans, and gorillas break off from the remaining higher primates?
(a) C. 15 millions of years ago.
(b) C. 20 millions of years ago.
(c) C. 10 millions of years ago.
(d) C. 5 millions of years ago.

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

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

5. How does the author believe that humans and chimps should properly be considered to be?
(a) One species within a single genus.
(b) Two species in two genera.
(c) One species in two genera.
(d) Two species within a single genus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is extra-marital sex approached differently by men than by women?

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

3. Why does the author suggest chimps be reclassified as Homo troglodytes and, presumably, Homo paniscus?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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