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Encyclopedia > Simon Conway Morris

Simon Conway Morris is a British paleontologist. He made his reputation with a very detailed and careful study of the Burgess Shale fossils, an exploit celebrated in Stephen Jay Gould's It's A Wonderful Life. and is a former student of Harry Blackmore Whittington. He is professor at the Earth Sciences Department in Cambridge. He is renowned for his insights into early evolution, and his studies of paleobiology. He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1996. A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... The Burgess Shale (named after Mount Burgess, close to where the Shale was found) is a black shale exposure found high up in the Canadian Rockies in Yoho National Park near the town of Field, British Columbia. ... A fossil Ammonite Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally having been dug up) are the mineralized or otherwise preserved remains or traces (such as footprints) of animals, plants, and other organisms. ... Stephen Jay Gould For the science fiction writer, see Steven Gould. ... Harry Blackmore Whittington (b. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... A speculatively rooted phylogenetic tree of all living things, based on rRNA gene data, showing the separation of the three domains, bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, as described initially by Carl Woese. ... Annually the British Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are held. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...


Biography

Date Position
1969-1972 University of Bristol: First Class Honours in Geology (B.Sc.).
1975 Elected Fellow (Title A) of St John's College.
1976 University of Cambridge: Ph.D.
1979 Appointed lecturer in Dept. of Earth Sciences, Open University.
1979 Appointed lecturer in Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.
1987-1988 Awarded a One Year Science Research Fellowship by the Nuffield Foundation
1990 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
1991 Appointed Reader in Evolutionary Palaeobiology
1995 Elected to an ad hominem Chair in Evolutionary Palaeobiology
1997-2002 NERC Council

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Bibliography

Simon Conway Morris has written a number of books on Palaeobiology and evolution, including:

  • 1998. The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals. Oxford University Press.
  • 2003. Life’s Solution: Inevitable humans in a Lonely Universe. Cambridge University Press.

He also contributed to Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology with an article entitled: The Cambrian "Explosion" of Metazoans. Origination of Organismal Form Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology Edited by Gerd Müller and Stuart Newman ISBN 0-262-13419-5 This book explores the multiple factors that may have been responsible for the origination of biological form in multicellular life. ...


External links

  • Simon Conway Morris's webpage at the Earth Sciences department

  Results from FactBites:
 
Dino Land Book Reviews: Life's Solution; Fossil Crinoids; The Primate Fossil Record (933 words)
Conway Morris, a recognized authority on the Burgess Shale Fossils, is known for his widely popular book The Crucible of Creation, which summarizes his Burgess Shale research and makes a powerful case for the importance of convergence as an evolutionary principle.
Conway Morris, who took strong disliking to Gould’s view, instead forcibly argued that certain basic principles underlie the process of evolution, and even if the tape were rerun, much of what we see today, including complex human intelligence, would likely still be seen due to the forces of convergent evolution.
It is unfortunate that Conway Morris opens his book with these chapters, as their inclusion likely will turn off many readers before they tackle the meat of the book: the strong evidence of convergence as a basic principle of evolution.
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