Simon Conway-Morris

Professor Simon Conway Morris, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Fellow of St John’s College...

Major changes in the chemical composition of the world’s oceans enabled the first large organisms – possibly some of the earliest animals – to exist...

A tiny sea creature identified from fossils found in China may be the earliest known step on an evolutionary path that eventually led to the emergence...

Ever wondered if a fly can ride a bicycle, or whether you could survive only on water? A new website on evolution, created by Cambridge scientists and...

The author of a new study of evolutionary convergence argues that the development of life on Earth is predictable, meaning that similar organisms...

New three-dimensional reconstructions show how some of the earliest animals on Earth developed, and provide some answers as to why they went extinct....

A major fossil discovery in Canada sheds new light on the development of the earliest vertebrates, including the origin of jaws, the first time this...

Most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans, discovered.