Quiz1

What is the distance to the moon?

• 180,000 km

• 1. 190,000 km

• 1. 380,000 km

• 1. 570,000 km

Who discovered the structure of DNA?

• Bowles & Gintis

• Robert Winston

• Watson & Crick

• Joseph Carroll

What did Louis and Mary Leakey discover first in 1959?

• The thigh bones of a great ape.

• The fossilized skull of a hominid.

• Ash from a volcanic eruption.

• Jurassic Park

What is the technical term for describing how nature and nurture have interacted over long periods of time?

• Social learning

• Cultural adaptation

• Evolutionary cycles

• Gene-culture coevolution

Which term is used for a genetically determined characteristic?

• A trait

• A genome

• A condition

• None of these

Which of these fears are children born with?

• Fear of snakes

• Fear of the water

• Fear of open spaces

• None of these

What did Professor Martin Nowak say is needed for indirect reciprocity? 

• A name

• A face

• Gift giving

• Trading

Which nucleotide base pairs with Adenine?

• Guanine

• Thymine

• Cytosine

• Adenine

Who is associated with the phrase "descent with modification"?

• Watson & Crick

• Darwin

• Nowak

• Bowles & Gintis

Which one of the following is essential for language?

• Bipedalism

• Fire

• Cooperation

• Orangutan