194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions
Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies
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How Did You Become a Paleontologist?
"I became determined to become a paleontologist for federal worse from really about the age of ten I think so we used to go all around the country even to place like France and collect fossils which we love doing" "As my many early mistakes were revealed by people more competent myself especially with the respect of the Burgess shale I began to think more and more about the possible importance of what we call evolutionary convergence that is a constraints on evolution," he says. 'It's much more reliable than what I can do so more seriously necessitates a vast amount of reading at high speed trying to arrive as sort of if not a census at least a slightly bleak view of some areas as mentioned of received
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