Simon Conway Morris FRS (born 1951) is an English palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the...
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Hallucigenia (category Taxa named by Simon Conway Morris)
polychaete worm Canadia. In his 1977 redescription of the organism, Simon Conway Morris recognized the animal as something quite distinct, for which he proposed...
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Doolittle Walcott as an annelid, and in 1979 by Harry B. Whittington and Simon Conway Morris as a chordate, it became "the most famous early chordate fossil"...
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Simon Morris may refer to: Simon Morris (businessman), British businessman Simon Morris (politician), Irish-born politician in Newfoundland Simon Conway...
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fauna relied heavily on Simon Conway Morris's reinterpretation of Charles Walcott's original publications. However, Conway Morris strongly disagreed with...
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of Cards, played by Joel Kinnaman Conway is a component of the compound surname Conway Morris: Simon Conway Morris, British palaeontologist This page...
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collected on an expedition in 1989. The fossils were described by Simon Conway Morris and John Peel in a short paper in 1990 in the journal Nature. Later...
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still widely shared; modern supporters include E. O. Wilson and Simon Conway Morris. The evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr made the term effectively...
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Nectocarididae (category Taxa named by Simon Conway Morris)
Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Clade: Bilateria Family: †Nectocarididae Conway Morris, 1976 Genera Nectocaris Conway Morris, 1976 Nectocotis Smith, 2019...
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encountered again, evolution could take a very different course." Simon Conway Morris disputes this conclusion, arguing that convergence is a dominant...
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similar to Vendobionta of the preceding Ediacaran period. De-Gan Shu, Simon Conway Morris et al. found on its branches what they considered rows of cilia,...
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of Cambridge palaeontologist Harry B. Whittington and his student Simon Conway Morris re-analysed the specimens and came to an opinion in 1977 that Pikaia...
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Shale of British Columbia. The name Hallucigenia was created by Simon Conway Morris in 1977, from which the family was erected after discoveries of other...
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preliminary account was published by Simon Conway Morris and others in 1987 and expeditions led by J. S. Peel and Conway Morris have returned to the site several...
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and played back, life would have taken a very different course. Simon Conway Morris counters this argument, arguing that convergence is a dominant force...
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challenged as being incorrect, most notably Simon Conway Morris' 1977 reconstruction of Hallucigenia. Conway Morris' reconstruction was, "so peculiar, so hard...
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Whittington. In the process of this revision, Whittington and his students Simon Conway Morris and Derek Briggs would discover the true nature of Anomalocaris and...
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important ramifications in Earth's ecosystem. Ruth M. Lynden-Bell; Simon Conway Morris; John D. Barrow; John L. Finney; Charles Harper (21 May 2010). Water...
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Dawkins's God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life p. 125 quoting Simon Conway Morris is support Dawkins's God p. 126 Dawkins's God p. 127 Dawkins's God...
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satirist Simon Chang (born 1947), Chinese-Canadian fashion designer Simon Chang (born 1954), Premier of the Republic of China Simon Conway Morris (born 1951)...
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Orthrozanclus (category Taxa named by Simon Conway Morris)
"scleritomorph C" without a detailed description. In 2007 Caron and Simon Conway Morris published a description and named the fossil Orthrozanclus reburrus...
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three palaeontologists, along with Harry Blackmore Whittington and Simon Conway Morris, who were key in the reinterpretation of the fossils of the Burgess...
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bilaterian; a stem- or possibly primitive crown-group mollusc. In 1985, Simon Conway Morris agreed that there were similarities to polychaetes, but considered...
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first member of a new phylum, Cycliophora, a finding described by Simon Conway Morris as "the zoological highlight of the decade". S. pandora has been...
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lobopodian discovered from the Spence Shale, it was described by Simon Conway Morris and Richard A. Robison in 1988. Owing to the original fragmentary...
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so likely to take place on other planets as well. Palaeontologist Simon Conway Morris considers that convergent evolution would lead to kingdoms similar...
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folding found in the fossils makes this conclusion tentative, with Simon Conway Morris, one of the British scientists involved in its discovery, admitting...
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the time to describe the organism, and it was not until 1977 that Simon Conway Morris described the animal. He tracked down two further specimens, collected...
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evolution, including Kenneth R. Miller, John Haught, George Coyne, Simon Conway Morris, Denis Alexander, Ard Louis, Darrel Falk, Alister McGrath, Francisco...
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research team at the Northwest University in Xi'an, China, along with Simon Conway Morris at the University of Cambridge in 2001. The name was derived from...
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