Simon Conway Morris
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Conway Morris S, Caron J
Biol Lett
. 2022 Sep;
18(9):20220179.
PMID: 36126687
By contrast to many previously enigmatic Palaeozoic fossils, the Carboniferous metazoan has defied phylogenetic placement. Here, we document new features, including possible phosphatized muscle tissues and a hitherto unrecognized feeding...
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Han J, Conway Morris S, Hoyal Cuthill J, Shu D
Sci Rep
. 2019 Mar;
9(1):4955.
PMID: 30894583
Cambrian annelids are strikingly diverse and reveal important details of annelid character acquisition. Their contribution, however, to a wider understanding of the evolution of the trochozoans (encompassing the annelids as...
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Paulson S, Chang M, Tattersall I, Conway Morris S
Ann N Y Acad Sci
. 2018 Jun;
1432(1):29-45.
PMID: 29876925
The notion that humans, in all their complexity, are merely an evolutionary accident, an insignificant speck in a boundless cosmos, is deeply unsatisfying for most nonscientists and fails to resonate...
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Hoyal Cuthill J, Conway Morris S
Nat Ecol Evol
. 2017 Oct;
1(8):1201-1204.
PMID: 29046572
Macroscale rangeomorph fossils, with characteristic branching fronds, appear (571 Myr ago) after the Gaskiers glaciation (580 Myr ago). However, biological mechanisms of size growth and potential connections to ocean geochemistry...
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Han J, Conway Morris S, Ou Q, Shu D, Huang H
Nature
. 2017 Jan;
542(7640):228-231.
PMID: 28135722
Deuterostomes include the group we belong to (vertebrates) as well as an array of disparate forms that include echinoderms, hemichordates and more problematic groups such as vetulicolians and vetulocystids. The...
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Nanglu K, Caron J, Conway Morris S, Cameron C
BMC Biol
. 2016 Jul;
14:56.
PMID: 27383414
Background: The combination of a meager fossil record of vermiform enteropneusts and their disparity with the tubicolous pterobranchs renders early hemichordate evolution conjectural. The middle Cambrian Oesia disjuncta from the...
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Conway Morris S
Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci
. 2016 Jan;
58:117-22.
PMID: 26783082
No chimpanzee knows what a square root is, let alone a complex number. Yet not only our closest ape cousins but even some invertebrates, possess a capacity for numerosity, that...
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Hoyal Cuthill J, Conway Morris S
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2014 Aug;
111(36):13122-6.
PMID: 25114255
The branching morphology of Ediacaran rangeomorph fronds has no exact counterpart in other complex macroorganisms. As such, these fossils pose major questions as to growth patterns, functional morphology, modes of...
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Conway Morris S, Caron J
Nature
. 2014 Jun;
512(7515):419-22.
PMID: 24919146
Knowledge of the early evolution of fish largely depends on soft-bodied material from the Lower (Series 2) Cambrian period of South China. Owing to the rarity of some of these...
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Caron J, Conway Morris S, Cameron C
Nature
. 2013 Mar;
495(7442):503-6.
PMID: 23485974
Hemichordates are a marine group that, apart from one monospecific pelagic larval form, are represented by the vermiform enteropneusts and minute colonial tube-dwelling pterobranchs. Together with echinoderms, they comprise the...