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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 Wilson credit animals with being able to see?
(a) The urgency of nature.
(b) The present moment.
(c) The world beyond the spectrum of our vision.
(d) The causes beneath their actions.

2. What does Wilson distinguish between?
(a) Science and ethics.
(b) Religion and myth.
(c) Science and religion.
(d) Science and pseudo-science.

3. 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.

4. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?
(a) Philosophy and evolution.
(b) Epistemology and religion.
(c) Classification and evolution.
(d) Evolution and genetics.

5. Wilson says that biological classification is based on the "Origin of Species" and what?
(a) Military organization.
(b) Systematics.
(c) Systems theory.
(d) Dianetics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??

2. Why does Wilson take up the example of dreams?

3. What political movement did Condorcet inspire?

4. What has research on the mind had to focus on?

5. Wilson says that passion and emotion are both linked to what?

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