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

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

3. Under what circumstances are theories accepted universally?
(a) When experimental data can be confirmed.
(b) When a theory promises to explain phenomena.
(c) When evidence is supported by interlocking theories.
(d) When a hypothesis explains phenomena.

4. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?
(a) It led to the rise of Napoleon.
(b) It appropriated church lands for the people.
(c) It concentrated wealth in a small group's hands.
(d) It tried to improve educational opportunities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What qualities of mind drove the techno-scientific age?

2. When was complexity theory formed?

3. What is gene-culture evolution?

4. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?

5. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?

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