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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.
(a) A way to study humans without them knowing.
(b) How they got to be the way they are.
(c) Where humans live.
(d) Why humans are the way they are.

2. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?
(a) The clone population will effectively kill the virus.
(b) The clone population will be wiped out.
(c) The virus will kill only the weakest clones.
(d) The clones attack one another in order to survive.

3. What is the lottery theory?
(a) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.
(b) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(c) Organisms in densely populated areas survive better.
(d) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually reproduce.

4. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.
(a) Only humans, not other organisms.
(b) One member of the same organism versus another member of that same organisim.
(c) No one.
(d) Everyone.

5. In humans, what does evolution rely on?
(a) Sexual Reproduction.
(b) Sexual and asexual reproduction.
(c) Asexual reproduction.
(d) Fission.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?

2. Why is this book called The Red Queen?

3. To understand human nature, what must we understand?

4. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?

5. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?

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