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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Accidental Conquerors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Is extra-marital sex approached differently by men than by women?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Rarely.
(d) Sometimes.

2. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Personality.
(b) Religion.
(c) Nearly all physical traits.
(d) Socioeconomic status.

3. When was agriculture first being practiced?
(a) 1,000,000 years ago.
(b) 100,000 years ago.
(c) 10,000 years ago.
(d) 1,000 years ago.

4. What other traits are highly connected to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Measures of personality and measures of physical attractiveness.
(b) Measures of physical attractiveness.
(c) Measures of personality and measures of intelligence.
(d) Measures of socioeconomic status and measures of intelligence.

5. What does the fact that the many vocalizations among groups of the same species vary significantly from group to group indicate?
(a) They are sounds learned only in adulthood.
(b) They are not the same language.
(c) They are a learned suite of sounds.
(d) They are sounds known at birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is this gazelle behavior considered dangerous?

2. What does the author say about the numerous scientific approaches to aging that have been proposed and numerous theories that have been suggested?

3. Why is human sexuality an unusually developed trait for primates?

4. What does the author state about the gap between animal vocalizations and human language?

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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