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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 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.

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

3. There is a strong correlation between sexual size dimorphism and what?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Polygamy.
(d) Heterosexuality.

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

5. What does the author conclude about a species' long-term survival probability?
(a) Longer-lived species put more energy into self-repair and less energy into reproduction over a given time period, thus optimizing their long-term survival probability.
(b) Shorter-lived species put more energy into self-repair and reproduction over a given time period, thus optimizing their long-term survival probability.
(c) Shorter-lived species put more energy into self-repair and less energy into reproduction over a given time period, thus optimizing their long-term survival probability.
(d) Longer-lived species put less energy into self-repair and more energy into reproduction over a given time period, thus optimizing their long-term survival probability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sexual strategy does the author say individual humans should adopt?

2. When do humans separate?

3. What did Neanderthals apparently master?

4. What is generally considered uniquely human?

5. Of what have several researchers focused on the vocalizations?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are pidgins or creoles?

2. What is the significance of hidden estrus?

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

4. How significant is race when picking a partner?

5. What have paleopathology investigations demonstrated regarding pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer humans and the average agricultural human?

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

7. What does the author conclude about human sexual strategies?

8. What are other traits are highly correlated to sexual attractiveness?

9. What does the author say about death?

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

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