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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do women tend to have affairs?

2. What are the human female's interest concerning reproduction and mating?

3. Why does the male pine mole visit many different tunnels?

4. How do women prefer to live with men?

5. In a person's youth, what happens to them to thwart off incest?

Short Essay Questions

1. When given pictures with landscapes and people, what differences do boys and girls have?

2. From the Red Queen Theory, what do we learn about cheaters?

3. Why does the author think that humans developed intelligence?

4. Unfortunately, what is very common in many primate groups?

5. What do men universally prefer in their women?

6. Who is the most likely to participate in incest?

7. What seems to be the best for most women and men and why?

8. What do studies on the pine mole show about the differences between male and female pine mole minds?

9. What is different between humans and primates?

10. What need is human language built around?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Ridley think that intelligence and language developed between human beings? Does he think that without this prompting, there would be no language?

Essay Topic 2

Ridley asserts that experiences as well as biological changes have made male and female minds different. Does Ridley view this as a negative? In the past, how has this statement been derogatory towards women? How has it made women be seen as unequal in the eyes of men?

Essay Topic 3

Although sexual reproduction is very expensive for species that partake in it, explain why asexual reproduction is less successful than sexual reproduction. List out the specific positives of participating in sexual reproduction. List the negative reasons for sexual reproduction.

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