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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fitness of Human Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the only way to get a clear picture of the world, in Wilson's account?
(a) To separate humanities from natural science.
(b) To add philosophy and ethics to all natural sciences.
(c) To integrate natural science with social sciences and humanities.
(d) To divorce the natural science from social sciences.

3. When was Condorcet born?
(a) 1752.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1789.

4. What does Wilson say we discover when we link social sciences, biology, ethics and environmental policy?
(a) Each field bolsters reasoning in other fields.
(b) Fields have their own unique disciplines.
(c) Fields need to have unified sources of funding.
(d) Academic research involves similar intellectual work no matter the field.

5. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?
(a) Synapses.
(b) Neurons.
(c) Neutrons.
(d) Axons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?

2. What does Wilson say matters in science?

3. What was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?

4. What philosophical assumption underlay the notion that evolution followed simple laws?

5. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?

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