Simon Conway Morris has held the Chair in Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Earth Sciences Department in Cambridge University since 1995, with a particular research interest in the early evolution of the metazoans . He became a fellow at St John's College Cambridge in 1975, having taken a first class honours degree in Geology from Bristol University. His initial appointment to the Earth Sciences department was as a lecturer in 1979. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990. In 1992, Simon Conway Morris was the Selby Visiting Fellow at the Australian Academy of Sciences. In 2000 he gave both the Tarner Lectures for Trinity College and was the Marker Lecturer at Penn State University.He has received numerous awards and medals including, in 1998, the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London. He has also appeared on TV and Radio, including the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for the BBC in 1996.[1]
Publications:
* The
Crucible of Creation first
published in 1997 by Kodansha in Japan, and by Oxford University Press
in 1998.
* Life's Solution: Inevitable
humans in a Lonely Universe,
2003; Cambridge University Press.
Resources:
- Wikipedia entry for Simon Conway-Morris
- Wikiquotes - a few quotes from Simon Conway-Morris (and a few about him)
- Simon Conway-Morris homepage at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.
- Frontspiece of Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe (Cambridge Univ Press: Cambridge, Eng, 2003)
- 2005 Boyle Lecture “Darwin’s Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation”
- 2007 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh (includes links to downloadable/streaming podcasts in .mp3 format)
- My article on SCM for The Melbourne Anglican
Downloadable/online audio from the Faraday Institute
- If the evolution of intelligence is inevitable, what are the theological implications? (Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, 30/05/06)
- Evolution and Fine-Tuning in Biology - Part 1 (Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, 18/07/06)
- Evolution and Fine-Tuning in Biology - Part 2 (Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, 18/07/06)
Footnotes:
1. ^ Taken from the Faraday Institute website <http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/Short_course.php?Course_selection=2&Mode=Old>