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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the 16th century cleric known for besides his scientific theories?
(a) Switching between Catholic and Protestant religions.
(b) His sermons.
(c) Killing Catholics.
(d) Being a survivor of Protestant ridicule.

2. What causes a man's brain to change in the womb?
(a) Estrogen.
(b) A dose of progesterone.
(c) A dose of testosterone.
(d) Endocrine.

3. How do organisms compete during evolution?
(a) They try to kill one another so that they might live.
(b) They compete with each other to pass down more genes to the next generation.
(c) They kill their prey and one another to be the last person standing.
(d) They kill their prey to ensure their survivors.

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) Russel Wallace.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Richard Dawkins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Men seem to have an insatiable desire for this.

2. What was a natural human situation in many early societies?

3. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?

4. Which type of women are the most attractive to men?

5. Who argues that the mind is made up of many different "modules" that have evolved over time such as "fear snakes" and various cheater detection mechanisms?

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