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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say about any human trait?

2. What theory does Darwin offer to explain these traits?

3. What primates are monogamous and solitary?

4. In Chapter 1, to what is the species Homo sapiens compared and contrasted?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of human language?

2. What takes place about 200,000 years ago?

3. What traits are extremely highly correlated to sexual attractiveness?

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

5. By what is the author's biological viewpoint complicated?

6. How is the third criterion not uniquely human?

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

8. What are pidgins or creoles?

9. Describe both Neanderthals.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Culture and society vastly complicate the idea of extra-marital sex.

Part 1) What role does society and culture play in the consequences of adultery?

Part 2) How does the view of adulterous relationships and polygamy vary from culture to culture and from one time period to another? What affect do these views have on the relationships between humans?

Part 3) What are your views on adultery and polygamy? Where have you acquired these views? How do your views affect the relationships you have with others?

Essay Topic 2

A theory is presented that seeks to explain human tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse as a form of deliberate handicap.

Part 1) How does the author try to prove that this abuse is a form of deliberate handicap? What is a deliberate handicap found in other animal species?

Part 2) Do you agree that that drug and substance abuse is a form of deliberate handicap? Why or why not?

Part 3) Do other animal species purposely cause harm to their bodies? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Human sexuality varies from the sexuality of most primates.

Part 1) Compare and contrast human sexuality to the sexuality of other primates.

Part 2) Why do these differences exist? How do these differences affect the relationships and reproductive abilities of both humans and other primates?

Part 3) Are these aspects of human sexuality chosen by humans or are they decided by genetics and on a subconscious level? Use the text and other research from class to support your response.

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