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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Walcott's Vision and the Nature of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must evolutionary biologists specify concerning similarities and differences?
(a) Types and sub-types.
(b) Vertebrate types.
(c) Invertebrate types.
(d) Six types.

2. When did Whittington publish a monograph on Yohoia?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1987.

3. What is Canadaspis?
(a) A nervous system.
(b) A carapace.
(c) A crustacean.
(d) A squid.

4. What example helped round out the Burgess revision?
(a) Marella.
(b) Aysehaia.
(c) Naraoia.
(d) Wiwaxia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who proposes to use the Burgess Shale to illustrate the nature of history?

2. What prevented Collins from excavating at Walcott's quarry?

3. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?

4. Why did Whittington's next classification pose a problem?

5. Who discovered Harry Whittington's analysis of fauna decades later?

(see the answer key)

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