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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Burgess Drama, Act 5. The Maturation of a Research Program: Life after Aysheaia, 1979 - Doomsday (There Are No Final Answers).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Walcott's taxonomy significantly updated?
(a) Including new phyla and manera.
(b) Including new marrella and phyla.
(c) Including new manera and genera.
(d) Including new genera and phyla.

2. How did Whittington approach Yohoia?
(a) Less conservatively.
(b) Moderately liberally.
(c) More conservatively.
(d) Very liberally.

3. When was the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras?
(a) 225 million years ago.
(b) 225 thousand years ago.
(c) 355 million years ago.
(d) 20 thousand years ago.

4. What kind of appendages did Yohoia have?
(a) Severed.
(b) Unique.
(c) Normal.
(d) Fluffy.

5. What pushed Whittington beyond the idea he struggled under?
(a) Marella.
(b) Wiwaxia.
(c) Opabinia.
(d) Yohoia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Morris publish while still in graduate school?

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

3. What do Oxford advisers not spend much of their time on, according to Gould?

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

5. Where is the Burgess Shale?

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