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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
(a) World War II.
(b) Once an advantage is gained, the loser will adapt to negate the advantage.
(c) People will try to kill one another so that their genes may carry on.
(d) No one can catch up.

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

3. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.
(a) Why people are attracted to one another.
(b) A reason for an individual organism to prefer sexual over asexual reproduction.
(c) A new way for humans to mate.
(d) The reason for asexual reproduction.

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

5. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?
(a) How sex works.
(b) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(c) Why sex works the way it does.
(d) Why people enjoy sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. When it is difficult or costly for female birds to choose males, females will choose ___________.

2. How do species outwit killer viruses?

3. What accusation does the author make against women?

4. What is the "good genes" theory?

5. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?

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