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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who directly advocated for polygamy in early societies?
(a) Religious groups.
(b) Pagan groups.
(c) Government groups.
(d) Kings and queens.

2. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
(a) Asexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(b) Sexual reproduction should not exist.
(c) Sexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(d) Same-sex reproduction must be understood to understand sexual reproduction.

3. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?
(a) Their spouses.
(b) Their friends.
(c) No one.
(d) Their descendants.

4. Why do women need men?
(a) To educate their children.
(b) To be lifetime partners.
(c) To help raise and provide for their children.
(d) To continue making children.

5. Who has solutions concerning genetics?
(a) Geneticists.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Doctors and scientists.
(d) Molecular biologists and geneticists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tangled bank theory?

2. The author believes that biological evolution and our environments _____________.

3. What is in the true interest of a female in reproduction?

4. What do the females of this same group prefer?

5. What is the solution of the individually rational genes?

(see the answer key)

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