# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-conway-morris
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:27:00.474Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-conway-morris"
name: "Simon Conway Morris"
slug: "simon-conway-morris"
description: "Simon Conway Morris is an English palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. The results of these discoveries were celebrated in Stephen Jay Gould's 1989 book Wonderful Life. Conway Morris's own book on the subject, The Crucible of Creation (1998), however, is critical of Gould's presentation and interpretation."
tagline: "British palaeontologist (born 1951)"
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birthDate: "1951-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump