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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Sexual Selection, and the Origin of Human Races.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does evidence suggest about how long race has been a characteristic of modern humans?
(a) A somewhat short time.
(b) A somewhat long time.
(c) A very short time.
(d) A very long time.

2. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?
(a) Traits that are not dominant in one's own.
(b) Traits that are different from one's own.
(c) Traits that contrast with one's own.
(d) Traits that closely approximate their own.

3. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.
(a) Not at all.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Slightly.
(d) Enormously.

4. Around 500,000 years ago, H. erectus appears to have given rise to who?
(a) The first modern H. ergaster.
(b) The first modern H. sapiens.
(c) The first modern H. georgicus.
(d) The first modern H. habilis.

5. Several scientifically rigorous genetic investigations of large populations conclusively demonstrate that roughly ______ percent of human children are not the genetic children of the male parent whom assumes genetic relatedness.
(a) 5.
(b) 20.
(c) 25.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the correlation for same-race mating?

2. One of the most intriguing results of this analysis is the observation of ___________________________.

3. How is this purely biological viewpoint on sexual encounters enormously complicated?

4. What is a fundamental aspect of humanity and in general is easy to determine even by non-experts?

5. Why were many of these scientific studies about extra-marital sexual unions never published?

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