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“... Shale and its mysterious, extinct creatures were discovered in Western Canada as long ago as 1909. Simon ConwayMorris was one of the scientists who did the hard work of interpreting the fossils. In the late Seventies and early Eighties he was noted for two things: at every symposium he presented some new oddity from ...”

“... anything like human beings would appear again. According to this view, we are flukes. Not so, says Simon ConwayMorris in Life’s Solution. There are ‘deeper structures and potentialities, if not inevitabilities’ at the heart of organic evolution, and biological possibility may, because of ‘physical ...”

“... Life (1989). Gould discussed the bizarre fossils uncovered by the Cambridge palaeontologist Simon ConwayMorris in an outcrop of rock in the Canadian Rockies, known as the Burgess Shale. The shale was formed 511 million years ago, in the period when animal life was first emerging. Buried within it ...”

“... certain types of complex system. Historical contingency, too, has a role in the new synthesis. Simon ConwayMorris has argued that if the Earth hadn’t been hit by the meteorite that probably made the dinosaurs extinct, the history of life would have been quite different. One of the most important recent ...”