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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 did the idea of intellectual unity foster in the Enlightenment?
(a) European supremacy.
(b) Diplomacy.
(c) Racial supremacy.
(d) Human rights.

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

3. How does Wilson characterize the relationship between consilience and the material world?
(a) He says it is implicit.
(b) He says it can only be known through language.
(c) He says that consilience can only be seen through a philosophical lens.
(d) He says that consilience is a sublime concept that can never be presented in fact.

4. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?
(a) Natural science and social science.
(b) Material and ideal.
(c) Concept and fact.
(d) Past and future.

5. What does Wilson say declined as people started to live longer in the nineteenth century?
(a) Reason and politeness.
(b) War.
(c) Crime and poverty.
(d) Greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is consilience?

2. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?

3. What decision was effectively made in human evolution as the brain found its present size?

4. That scientific tools does Wilson credit with driving the age of scientific expansion?

5. How do hereditarians see the evolution of culture?

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