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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?
(a) Democratic governments.
(b) Scavengers.
(c) Hunter gatherers.
(d) Hunters.

2. What does the story in Chapter 5 prove for the author?
(a) Ideal mating conditions are rare.
(b) An example of sexual, rather than natural selection.
(c) How male support continues the species.
(d) Producing offspring is the goal of all mammals.

3. What was a natural human situation in many early societies?
(a) Biological selection.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Natural selection.
(d) Polygamy.

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) Russel Wallace.
(d) Charles Darwin.

5. Young boys show a propensity for __________.
(a) Verbal tasks.
(b) Math.
(c) Being Angry.
(d) Physical activity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?

2. "The first is that all of human behavior is ______ and hence, biological evolution will have little effect on the next generation."

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

4. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?

5. Our ideas of attractiveness and our sexual inclinations seem to be _________.

(see the answer key)

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