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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. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Locke.
(c) de Sade.
(d) Condorcet.

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

3. According to complexity theory, what is the result of living on the edge of chaos?
(a) Extinction.
(b) Experimentation.
(c) Escalation.
(d) Evolution.

4. What power does Wilson attribute to men who control large amounts of territory?
(a) The power to create monopolies.
(b) The power to determine the local economy.
(c) The power to command people's labor.
(d) The power to distribute genes widely.

5. What problem does Wilson identify in Freud's research on dreams?
(a) He didn't test his hypotheses.
(b) He was monomaniacally focused on childhood sexual trauma.
(c) He experimented with cocaine.
(d) He uses mental patients for his experiments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does natural consilience connect?

2. What purpose does Wilson say dreams serve?

3. The idea that water was the unifying medium for all nature is the center of which philosophical view?

4. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?

5. Who proposed the idea of unity of species that follow a few simple laws?

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