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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which creatures are representative of these four classes that survived the first great extinction?
(a) Dragonfly, crabs, and trilobites.
(b) Snails, crabs and dragonflies.
(c) Dragonfly, a fossil eurypterid, a crab and a trilobite
(d) Eurypterid, mollusk, sea cucumbers.

2. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1969.

3. What type of relationship does Gould say Oxford advisers have with their students?
(a) A strong relationship.
(b) A mature relationship.
(c) A premature relationship.
(d) Little to no relationship.

4. How can scientists describe the structure of evolutionary inference?
(a) Fairly intuitive.
(b) Quite complex.
(c) Quite simple.
(d) Fairly easy.

5. What kind of similarities and differences must scientists attend to?
(a) None.
(b) Deep.
(c) Fair to middling.
(d) Shallow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris described as?

2. After publishing his first monograph, which two graduate students did Whittington employ?

3. What do bats superficially resemble?

4. Which genus was Whittington focused on classifying in Chapter Three?

5. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?

(see the answer key)

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