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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through From Genes to Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes a change in traits?
(a) Mutation of one gene.
(b) Environmental changes that make a trait more desirable.
(c) Mutation of several genes, plus an environmental change.
(d) The process of survival that makes a new trait more common.

2. What does science use as proof of a theory?
(a) Hypotheses.
(b) Repeated experiments.
(c) Phenomena witnessed by neutral observers.
(d) Natural laws.

3. What do cultures use from the mind, in Wilson's account?
(a) Science.
(b) Humanities.
(c) Narratives.
(d) Myths.

4. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?
(a) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.
(b) He says it is implicit.
(c) He says that consilience can only be seen through a philosophical lens.
(d) He says it can only be known through language.

5. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??
(a) It has generated unprecedented discussions between disciplines.
(b) It has created the conditions for unification.
(c) It has opened new fields.
(d) It has not been useful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say the standards that measure scientific knowledge should be based on?

2. Why have scientific models of the brain failed to explain consciousness?

3. What idea of Locke's survived the Enlightenment into Romanticism?

4. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?

5. What did Condorcet pioneer?

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