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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Reconstruction of the Burgess Shale: Toward a New View of Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Gould's perspective, what historical understanding does the Burgess shale offer humanity?
(a) The idea of "plague."
(b) The idea of "necrogenesis."
(c) The idea of "symbiosis."
(d) The idea of "contingency."

2. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?
(a) Compensatory cost.
(b) Monetary cost.
(c) Physical cost.
(d) Psychological cost.

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

4. What did the "death of the dinosaurs" boundary make possible?
(a) The development of rodents.
(b) The development of smaller mammals.
(c) The development of large tortoises and sharks.
(d) The development of large mammals like humans.

5. What kind of paradigm does Gould believe has not been communicated to the public?
(a) A provoking platonic paradigm.
(b) A controversial conservative paradigm.
(c) A new research paradigm.
(d) A leftover historical paradigm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types did Whittingdon use to classify the new species?

2. What does the Precambrian Era contain?

3. How many of these designs survived the first great extinction?

4. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?

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

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