36 Quotes by Simon Conway Morris

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

Richard Dawkins is arguably England’s most pious atheist.

If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site...

The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged.