Simon Conway Morris

Simon Conway Morris ( born November 6, 1951 in Carshalton, Surrey ) is a British paleontologist. He was internationally known as a student of the fossils of the Burgess Shale.

Conway Morris is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the British University of Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1987 he was awarded the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1998 with the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London. In 1989 he was awarded the Charles Schuchert Award. Conway Morris is the chief representative of the convergence theory in evolution.

Works

• The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals. Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Beyond the chance. We humans in a lonely universe. Berlin University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940432-07-0 ( German version of: Life's Solution: Inevitable humans in a Lonely Universe, Cambridge University Press, 2003. ).