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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 does Edmund Wilson credit human nature with altering?
(a) Epigenetic rules.
(b) Language.
(c) The environment.
(d) Technological influences.

2. Who influenced Wilson's idea of unified learning?
(a) Van Buren.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Lamarck.
(d) Linnaeus.

3. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?
(a) They made correct assumptions about the evolution of species.
(b) They made correct assumptions about the material world.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the presence of dinosaurs.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the nature of divinity.

4. What are epigenetic rules?
(a) The process of selecting which genes are most desirable in an environment.
(b) The language in which culture expresses itself.
(c) Influences that affect the expression of genes.
(d) The cultural effect on genetic expression.

5. What evolution creates culture?
(a) Genetics.
(b) Theories of representation.
(c) Symbolic language.
(d) Environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Wilson react against the religion he inherited?

2. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?

3. How do nurturists see the evolution of culture?

4. How does consilience work?

5. What accomplishment does Wilson say Einstein strove for in his work?

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