1. What’s weird about the reproductivestrategy of the Striped Texas Lizards?
2. What are 3 disadvantages or costsof sex?
3. What is the Red QueenHypothesis?
4. Summarize how the guppiesdemonstrated that variation is the key to “why sex.â€
5. How did sex start?
6. What’s “the war between the sexesâ€refer to?
7. Why did the idea of female choicedriving sexual selection take so long to be accepted?
8. You don’t have to write this down,but be sure you understand the peacock experiment.
9. What percentage of songbird chicksin a typical nest are fathered by different parents? Why do thefemale birds risk this? And why do they bother with “monogamy†inthe first place?
10. What’s different about theJacanas?
11. Bonobo troops behave in a ratherdramatically different fashion than troops of chimps. What’s theexplanation for that?
