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Inevitable humans: Simon Conway Morris's evolutionary paleontology - review

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorJoint Publication Board of Zygon, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T04:31:05Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T04:31:05Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionThis is an electronic version of an article published in Zygon®: Journal of Religion and Science.
dc.descriptionBook review of Simon Conway Morris's Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (page 229).
dc.description.abstractSimon Conway Morris, noted Cambridge University paleontologist, argues that in evolutionary natural history humans (or beings rather like humans) are an inevitable outcome of the developing speciating processes over millennia. This claim, in marked contrast to claims about contingency made by other prominent paleontologists, is based on numerous remarkable convergences--similar trends found repeatedly in evolutionary history. Conway Morris concludes facing a natural theology. His argument is powerful and informed. But does it face adequately the surprising events that redirect the course of life? The challenge to understand how humans are both "on a continuum" with other species and also "utterly different" remains a central puzzle in paleontology.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Inevitable Humans: Simon Conway Morris's Evolutionary Paleontology, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 40, no. 1 (March 2005): 221-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00654.x
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00654.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/37446
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofScience & Religion: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectnature and culture
dc.subjectConway Morris, S. (Simon)
dc.subjectconvergence
dc.subjectco-option
dc.subjectevolution
dc.subjecthuman uniqueness
dc.subjectnatural theology
dc.subjectorigin of humans
dc.subjectpossibility space
dc.subjectself-organizing complexity
dc.titleInevitable humans: Simon Conway Morris's evolutionary paleontology - review
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