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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, The Second Cloud.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say about primates with large testes?
(a) They are more complaisant.
(b) They mate infrequently.
(c) They mate frequently.
(d) They are more aggressive.

2. When do various physical illnesses and social disease arise?
(a) When various groups converge.
(b) With the hunting to extinction of large species by the hunter-gatherer societies.
(c) With the advent of agriculture and rising population densities.
(d) When food is scarce.

3. What percentage of extinctions does archaeological evidence suggest is the responsibility of pre-historic humans?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 8 percent.
(c) 80 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

4. When did humans first cross the Bering Straights into Alaska and then spread south into North America?
(a) About 11,000 years ago.
(b) About 2,000 years ago.
(c) About 100,000 years ago.
(d) About 5,000 years ago.

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 known at birth.
(b) They are sounds learned only in adulthood.
(c) They are a learned suite of sounds.
(d) They are not the same language.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did agriculture give rise?

2. What is the conclusion based on the art criteria?

3. What is the purpose of the bowers?

4. What does Chapter 5 begin by examining?

5. Does penis size correspond to frequency of sexual intercourse?

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