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

2. Under what circumstances are theories accepted universally?
(a) When experimental data can be confirmed.
(b) When evidence is supported by interlocking theories.
(c) When a theory promises to explain phenomena.
(d) When a hypothesis explains phenomena.

3. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?
(a) Reason and politeness.
(b) Greed.
(c) Crime and poverty.
(d) War.

4. What did Descartes argue for, in Wilson's account?
(a) The separation of mind and matter.
(b) The unification knowledge.
(c) The integration of historical will and individual will.
(d) Universal peace.

5. What is the relationship between politicians and intellectuals, in Wilson's account?
(a) They are not related.
(b) They have a mutually supportive role.
(c) They misinterpret each other's work.
(d) They obfuscate each other's work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What benefit does Wilson say consilience has?

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

3. How much does the human brain weigh on average?

4. What did Laplace pioneer?

5. What does Wilson credit animals with being able to see?

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