Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Quiz

E. O. Wilson

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How many billion people can the earth sustain, theoretically? (from To What End?)

22.

12.

16.

10.

2.

What is the social cost of violating the incest taboo? (from The Fitness of Human Nature)

Failure to adapt and survive.

Legal punishment.

Disenfranchisement.

Unfit offspring.

3.

What do the natural science stimulate, in Wilson's account? (from Ariadne's Thread)

Other sciences.

Religious controversy.

Industry.

Radicalism.

4.

What has research on the mind had to focus on? (from The Mind)

The spirit.

The soul.

Behavior.

The working brain.

5.

What is the problem with anthropology, in Edmund Wilson's estimation? (from The Social Sciences)

It is not funded well enough.

It is dominated by scientists who deny anthropology's genetic aspect.

It is run by social scientists who attribute everything to genetics.

It is divided into two irreconcilable branches, neither of which resolve the question of diversity.

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