Simon Conway Morris

Simon Conway Morris is a British paleontologist. He is noted for his involvement with Burgess Shale fossils.

He is professor at the Earth Sciences Department in Cambridge. He is famous for his insights into early evolution, and his studies of palaeobiology .

He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1996.

Brief biography

Date	Position
1969-1972	University of Bristol: First Class Honours in Geology (B.Sc.).
1975	Elected Fellow (Title A) of St John's College.
1976	University of Cambridge: Ph.D.
1979	Appointed lecturer in Dept. of Earth Sciences, Open University.
1979	Appointed lecturer in Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.
1987-1988	Awarded a One Year Science Research Fellowship by the Nuffield Foundation
1990	Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
1991	Appointed Reader in Evolutionary Palaeobiology
1995	Elected to an ad hominem Chair in Evolutionary Palaeobiology
1997-2002	NERC Council

Simon Conway Morris has written a number of books on Palaeobiology and evolution, including:

The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 1998.
Life’s Solution: Inevitable humans in a Lonely Universe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 2003;