Professor Simon Conway Morris

Simon Conway Morris is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as a Research Fellow at St John’s College, and has lectured at the Open University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990, and has received medals from the National Academy of Sciences and the Geological Society of London. He worked for the Natural Environment Research Council between 1998 and 2002. Simon is renowned for his insights into early evolution and his studies of palaeobiology.


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 Publications

Life’s Solution: Inevitable humans in a Lonely Universe (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
The Crucible of Creation (Oxford University Press, 1998)

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