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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have scientists discovered about sexual reproduction versus asexual reproduction?
(a) Sexual reproduction allows an individual to spread its gene over a large population.
(b) Asexual reproduction allows an individual to spread its gene over a large population.
(c) Asexual reproduction is easier.
(d) Sexual reproduction is easier.

2. What tends to stay private between humans?
(a) Child-bearing.
(b) Sex.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Money.

3. What is most male to male battle over in tribes?
(a) Women.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Land.

4. If a male misses the change of his brain in the womb, what happens to him?
(a) He is homosexual.
(b) He is too masculine.
(c) He is bisexual.
(d) He is more feminine.

5. What did Zahavi, a scientist, theorize about reproduction mating?
(a) Female attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.
(b) Male attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.
(c) Male attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.
(d) Female attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is attractiveness always the only criteria for mate selection?

2. What, in the author's opinion, supports his assertions concerning a female's desires for reproduction?

3. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?

4. How does the Red Queen begin?

5. What type of success does evolution care about?

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