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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children per parent would families need to have for the world's population to reach 12.5 billion by 2050?
(a) 2.2.
(b) 2.4.
(c) 2.0.
(d) 2.1.

2. What will the combination of the arts and sciences ultimately create?
(a) Transcendence.
(b) The evolution of the brain.
(c) The genetic source of imagination.
(d) The revelation of the source of creativity.

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

4. What is critical to the development of culture, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) Environmental complexities.
(b) Artistic complexities.
(c) Genetic complexities.
(d) Linguistic complexities.

5. What did economists do during the Marginalist Era in economics?
(a) They described production as the result of supply and demand.
(b) They used science to analyze motives and trends in the mass.
(c) They examined social behaviors as individual activities.
(d) They used statistics to model mass behaviors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wilson defines culture in terms of what?

2. What does natural consilience connect?

3. What cannot be expressed by brain imaging, in Edmund Wilson's account?

4. What does Wilson say about the complexity of the social sciences?

5. How does Transcendentalism validate ethics?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does art look through the gene-culture evolution paradigm Wilson offers?

2. What is the fundamental assumption behind consilience?

3. What social problems does Wilson say are caused by failures in social sciences?

4. How do patterns in mental development connect genes to culture?

5. How do the senses function as epi-genetic rules?

6. What ethical perspective does Wilson call the Transcendental view?

7. Where does ethics come from, in E.O. Wilson's account?

8. How do social factors influence genetic distribution?

9. What role does the incest taboo have in genetic and cultural development?

10. What does Wilson say the liberal arts should address?

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