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:

Downloadable/online audio from the Faraday Institute

Footnotes:

1. ^ Taken from the Faraday Institute website <http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday/Short_course.php?Course_selection=2&Mode=Old>

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