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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI-XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much Denisovan DNA did contemporary New Guineans carry?
(a) Up to 6 percent.
(b) 3 percent.
(c) About 4 percent.
(d) 1 percent.

2. What did Suci weigh at birth?
(a) 70 pounds.
(b) 50 pounds.
(c) 30 pounds.
(d) 85 pounds.

3. Where did evolution emerge as a concept?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

4. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?
(a) York.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Oxford.

5. Where did the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frogs lay their eggs?
(a) Marshy areas.
(b) Tree holes.
(c) Hedges.
(d) Hollow logs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Paabo announce his project to sequence the entire Neanderthal genome?

2. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?

3. How tall did the Arctic willow grow on Ellesmere?

4. In a cave in Vermont, how many bat corpses piled up on the ground after they were affected by "Geomyces destructans"?

5. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?

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