Simon Conway Morris

Conway Morris is Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990 and presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1996. His search for fossils has taken him to many parts of the world, including China, Mongolia, Australia and Greenland.

So much for the jacket notes. Conway Morris’s chief claim to fame came with his involvement, along with H.B. Whittington and Derek Briggs, in a massive undertaking to re-examine Walcott’s Burgess Shale collections. Their effort was chronicled in Stephen J. Gould’s book, Wonderful Life, which, ironically and sadly, became far more popular and far better known than the geologists’ own works.

His books include:

The Crucible of Creation (1998)

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