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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an optimal organism?
(a) One that is balanced because a few maximized parts do not create an optimal organism.
(b) One that has a few maximized parts rather than one that is equally balanced.
(c) One that is balanced and has a few maximized parts.
(d) One that has a few maximized parts.

2. What traits are extremely highly important to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Religion, intelligence, and socioeconomic status.
(b) Physical attractiveness and intelligence.
(c) Socioeconomic status, ethnic background, and appearance.
(d) Religion, ethnic background, race, socioeconomic status, age, and political views.

3. How do adolescent bower bird males learn construction methods and decorative processes?
(a) They teach themselves.
(b) They watch older males.
(c) They create their own unique bowers.
(d) They watch each other.

4. Who are the chimps' closest living relatives?
(a) Gorillas.
(b) Baboons.
(c) Humans.
(d) Apes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this say about secretive extra-marital sexual unions?

2. What is the purpose of the bowers?

3. When do chimpanzees diverge from pygmy chimpanzees?

4. Is the first criterion uniquely human?

5. How do scientists know that about four millions of years ago the first proto-human hominids began to walk upright?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author conclude this chapter?

2. What is one of the most instructive avenues of investigation on human sexual attraction?

3. How are females nearly unique among animals in menopause?

4. What evidence exists about people who are raised around members of a race different from their own genetic race?

5. How is the study of testis and penis size among primates useful?

6. What has research discovered about the percentage of children who are not raised by their biological fathers?

7. With what does the author conclude?

8. What is the author's conclusion about art?

9. What is evident about the human race?

10. When do various primates break off from the remaining higher primates?

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