Simon Conway Morris holds an ad hominem Chair in
Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge. A
Fellow of St John's College, and also of the Royal Society,
Conway Morris took his first degree at the University of
Bristol. His research interests include the study of Burgess
Shale-type faunas, the first appearance of skeletons, and the
Cambrian explosion.
He is published in Nature and Cell, among
other peer-reviewed journals, and is the author of two books,
The Crucible of Creation and Life's Solution:
Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. His interests
extend to the science/religion debate and the public
understanding of science, the latter including television
appearances in the 1996 Royal Institution Christmas
Lectures, as well as involvement in the National Geographic
channel's Alien Worlds.
selected books
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
(Cambridge University Press, New Ed edition, 2004)
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The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals(Oxford University Press, reprint edition 2000)
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