Conway Morris, Simon

Conway Morris, Simon Paleontologist who promotes evolutionary convergence and wrote Life s Solution (2003). 

Prothero, D. R. 2003. Inevitable humans Or hidden agendas A review of Life s Solution by Simon Conway Morris. The Skeptic, 10 (3), 54-7. 

Oakes, E. T. (2004). The evolution of evolution, a review of Simon Conway Morris,... 

The two different issues of sufficiency and necessity - if, and only if- are alluded to in the subtitle of Simon Conway Morris s (2003) book. Life s Solution Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, and involve, respectively, determinative and requisite constraints in evolution. This chapter will focus on the question of sufficient or determinative constraint. The question of whether the environment is suited or fit to ensure the arising of complex, socially affiliative life is both scientifically and theologically significant. I will argue that directional and convergent trends in the evolution of life history strategies reflect an inherent tilt toward increased... 

Simon Conway Morris is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Life s Solution Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (Cambridge University Press, 2003). 

Edited by John D. Barrow, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen J. Freeland and Charles L. Harper, Jr. 

Another scientist with fightin words for Gould is the principal exponent of convergence, Simon Conway Morris. In Wonderful Life, Gould extolled the scientific virtues of Conway Morris, but later Conway Morris contested Gould s tape of life ... 

The reductionist approach to evolution. .. has proved enormously successful in illuminating the ultimate basis for the transformation of one organ into another, or even one species into another but these momentous discoveries do not explain the course of biological history. The description of a cast of characters alone does not determine the shape of a drama. Richard Fortey, in a review of Simon Conway Morris s The Crucible of Creation... 

I thank Per Erik Ahlberg and Billie Swalla for discussion, and Philip Donoghue, Simon Conway Morris, R.P.S.Jefferies, Thurston LacalU, Kevin Peterson and two anonymous reviewers for discussion and comments on various versions of this manuscript. The Cranley is gone but not forgotten. 

Simon Conway Morris, Phil Donoghue, Valya Karatujute-Talimaa, Moya Smith and Gavin Young are thanked for discussions. J.F.Miller and J.E.Repetski generously provided specimens of Anatolepis and Late Cambrian conodonts. The manuscript was improved by comments from Henry Gee, and Simon Conway Morris kindly provided pre-publication copies of papers. 

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