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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 the Precambrian Era contain?
(a) Rational, linear logic and the advent of single-celled life.
(b) Geological, non-biological time and the advent of single-celled life.
(c) Spatial, non-biological time and the decimation of single-celled life.
(d) Physical, non-linear time and the advent of multi-cellular life.

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

3. When did Whittington publish his first monograph?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1969.

4. What does the Burgess Shale represent that occurred 570 million years ago?
(a) The "Precambrian Explosion."
(b) The "Prezoaic Explosion."
(c) The "Anthropological Explosion."
(d) The "Cambrian Explosion."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Whittington's first monograph about?

2. What does Gould determine about the difference between eukaryotic fauna and the Burgess fauna?

3. What did the new methods Whittington and his team adopted help them do?

4. Which progressive conception collapses because scientists do not fully understand the mechanisms of change?

5. What cost comes with accepting Gould's picture of human evolution?

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