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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 has research on the mind had to focus on?
(a) The spirit.
(b) The soul.
(c) The working brain.
(d) Behavior.

2. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Arts.
(c) Humanities.
(d) Sciences.

3. How can science help us, in Wilson's account?
(a) Science can reveal the extent of human powerlessness.
(b) Science can give us better stories to tell about psychological nature.
(c) Science can expand the limits of what we can see.
(d) Science can show us how our impressions are created by our feelings.

4. What does status give a man power to do, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Have more wives.
(b) Have more influence.
(c) Have more offspring.
(d) Have more money.

5. How are scientific theories constructed and used within the scientific community, in Wilson's account?
(a) They rely on intuition as much as observable results.
(b) They are made to define eternal laws.
(c) They sketch but never define natural phenomena.
(d) They can be discarded if disproved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson distinguish between?

2. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?

3. Why have scientific models of the brain failed to explain consciousness?

4. What does temporal-lobe epilepsy cause?

5. What beneficial uses can incest have in cultures, in Durham's account?

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