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

2. What is the classification of animal species specifically warned to not be made on alone?
(a) The basis of similarities and differences.
(b) Appearance, function and historical context.
(c) Five or more paleontologists.
(d) Time and timing of the discovery.

3. How does Gould say diversity could possibly have expanded?
(a) Geometrically.
(b) Exponentially less.
(c) Evenly or even logarithmically.
(d) Narrowly.

4. What is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The smallest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(b) The largest collection of fossils ever discovered.
(c) A territory of British Columbia.
(d) The Canadian Rockies.

5. Who was America's "greatest paleontologist and scientific administrator"?
(a) Charles Walmont.
(b) Dr. Doolittle.
(c) Charles Doolittle Walcott.
(d) Charlie VanGuarden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many general Burgess revisions did we acquire?

2. What does the evolution of life contain, according to Gould's explanations and illustrations?

3. What stage of contingency does the book focus on most?

4. What does Gould strain to emphasize for his audience?

5. What kind of category was it?

(see the answer key)

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