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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 does Wilson say that humans are incapable of seeing?
(a) The state of grace.
(b) The world in its true state.
(c) The history of things.
(d) Change over time.

2. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?
(a) Because of the intellectual opposition to the tyranny of the revolution.
(b) Because of the excesses of tyrants and terrorists.
(c) Because the efficiency of the military in the Reign of Terror allowed Napoleon's rise.
(d) Because of international fear of the spread of revolution.

3. Why does Wilson say that the concept of evolutionary progress is not easily defined?
(a) Because the historical record is unclear, and because the present moment is still chaotic.
(b) Because evolution does not have a goal.
(c) Because it is impossible to predict what conditions will be, and how they will require adaptation.
(d) Because the goal of evolution is clear to individuals but not to the race as a whole.

4. What does temporal-lobe epilepsy cause?
(a) Catatonia.
(b) Tourette's syndrome.
(c) Narcolepsy.
(d) Hyper-religiosity.

5. What does science seek, in Wilson's account?
(a) Objective truth based on hypothesis.
(b) Probably hypothesis.
(c) The mind of God.
(d) Interesting hypotheses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Condorcet pioneer?

2. How can scientists monitor the working brain, in Wilson's account?

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

4. When was Condorcet born?

5. Wilson says that passion and emotion are both linked to what?

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