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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 does science use as proof of a theory?
(a) Phenomena witnessed by neutral observers.
(b) Repeated experiments.
(c) Hypotheses.
(d) Natural laws.

2. When did the Enlightenment end, in Wilson's account?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1794.

3. What does Edmund Wilson credit human nature with altering?
(a) Language.
(b) The environment.
(c) Epigenetic rules.
(d) Technological influences.

4. How does consilience help us understand organisms?
(a) By examining their organization.
(b) By reconstructing them from cells.
(c) By examining their environment.
(d) By seeing their evolution.

5. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?
(a) Unified.
(b) Fragmented.
(c) Irreconcilable.
(d) Interconnected.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Wilson characterize the modern definition of dreams?

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

4. What does natural selection provide for a species?

5. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?

(see the answer key)

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