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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remainder of Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Whittington use to dissect the carapace of Opabinia?
(a) New tools.
(b) New methods.
(c) Old tools.
(d) New stringents.

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

3. What kind of interpretation did Morris want of the Burgess Shale fossils?
(a) Radical.
(b) Grand.
(c) Morose.
(d) Lenient.

4. What type of example is Aysehaia?
(a) A godsend example.
(b) A omnipresent example.
(c) A further example.
(d) A lesser example.

5. What did Anomalocaris appear to represent?
(a) Another new species.
(b) Another new taxonomy.
(c) Another new phylum.
(d) Another new kingdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Walcott group the Burgess arthropods among the arthropod phylum?

2. What is Canadaspis?

3. What did 1971 through 1978 bring for Whittington?

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

5. How many years did Whittington spend on his 1979 monograph?

(see the answer key)

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