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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 is consilience?
(a) An underlying pattern that tends toward unification.
(b) A proposal for reorganizing departments of knowledge.
(c) A historical basis for unifying fields of study.
(d) An agreed approach to different subjects.
2. What does temporal-lobe epilepsy cause?
(a) Narcolepsy.
(b) Tourette's syndrome.
(c) Hyper-religiosity.
(d) Catatonia.
3. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?
(a) Military organization.
(b) Dianetics.
(c) Systematics.
(d) Systems theory.
4. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Humanities.
(d) Arts.
5. What is gene-culture evolution?
(a) Development of individuals and races within evolving cultures.
(b) Enrichment of the environment within which genes are altered.
(c) Changes in human culture that are driven by genetic changes.
(d) Evolution of the genes that change a species' culture.
Short Answer Questions
1. What has research on the mind had to focus on?
2. What explanation does Wilson offer for incest taboos?
3. What does Edmund Wilson credit human nature with altering?
4. Where do the images of snakes in dreams likely come from, in Wilson's account?
5. Wilson defines culture in terms of what?
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