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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. What does Gould's new interpretation emphasize about human evolution?
(a) It has five orders.
(b) It has no single order.
(c) It has a single order.
(d) It has two orders.

2. In what fashion was the Burgess Shale actually discovered?
(a) A more mundane fashion.
(b) A reasonable fashion.
(c) A sympathetic fashion.
(d) A respectable fashion.

3. What did Whittington attempt to do to many of the new species found in the Burgess Shale?
(a) Dissect them for a museum show.
(b) Classify them into an already existing taxonomy.
(c) Reproduce them.
(d) Cyrogenically preserve them.

4. Which fossils was Whittington an expert of?
(a) Trilobite fossils.
(b) Pitolimite fossils.
(c) Bezoar fossils.
(d) Trixony fossils.

5. Of Whittington's team, who was more methodologically conservative?
(a) Derek Briggs.
(b) Simeon Martin.
(c) Conway Morris.
(d) Whittington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comprises the first 4 billion years of Earth's history?

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

3. How many general stages of fauna are between the two faunas both eukaryotic and of the Burgess Shale?

4. What do the levels range from in the taxonomy of life?

5. What is one of the first tasks of the paleontologist after producing a clear specimen?

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