The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.
(a) Female or male.
(b) Hermaphrodite.
(c) Male.
(d) Female.

2. To understand human nature, what must we understand?
(a) The origin of emotions.
(b) Differences in humans.
(c) The origin of attraction between humans.
(d) The origin of human nature.

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

4. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Russel Wallace.

5. How do males harm themselves?
(a) Uneasy violence.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Status games.
(d) Uneasy violence and status games.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do genes exist?

2. In Chapter 4, what story of tragedy does the author tell?

3. What are transposons?

4. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.

5. Who has solutions concerning genetics?

(see the answer key)

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