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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) Six types.
(b) Invertebrate types.
(c) Types and sub-types.
(d) Vertebrate types.

2. Where is the Burgess Shale?
(a) The Appalachian Mountains.
(b) Mt. Everest.
(c) England.
(d) The Canadian Rockies.

3. What could Whittington not figure out to do about Marrella?
(a) Which class it did not belong to.
(b) Which class to make up.
(c) Which two classes to classify it in.
(d) Which existing phyla to classify it in.

4. What does Chapter 4 argue that the story of history is about?
(a) Contingency.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Historicity.
(d) Majority.

5. Which old category did the team focus on to classify Opabinia?
(a) "Worms."
(b) "Beetles."
(c) "Mechanisms."
(d) "Trilobites."

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the old story have Walcott miraculously stumble upon the Burgess Shale?

2. What did Walcott think Opabinia was just another one of?

3. What happened after Whittington published his monograph on Naraoia?

4. What could Whittington not classify Marella with?

5. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?

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