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Whittington, with the help of research students Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris of the University of Cambridge, began a thorough reassessment of the Burgess Shale, and revealed that the fauna represented were much more diverse and unusual than Walcott had recognized.
Gould's interpretation of the diversity of Cambrian fauna relied heavily on Simon Conway Morris ' reinterpretation of Charles Walcott's original publications.
However, Conway Morris strongly disagreed with Gould's conclusions, arguing that almost all the Cambrian fauna could be classified into modern day phyla.
* Gould, Stephen Jay & Conway Morris, Simon.
* Conway Morris, Simon.
However, Hahn & Pflug ( 1985 ) and Conway Morris et al .. ( 1990 ) doubted both Germs ' and Glaessner's suggested relationships, and were unwilling to classify it to anything more than its own family, Cloudinidae.
Simon Conway Morris counters this argument, arguing that convergence is a dominant force in evolution, and that, since the same environmental and physical constraints act on all life, there is an " optimum " body plan that life will inevitably evolve toward, with evolution bound to stumble upon intelligence — a trait of primates, crows, and dolphins — at some point.
* Shu, D-G ; Luo, H-L ; Conway Morris, S .; Zhang X-L ; Hu, S-X ; Chen, L. ; Han, J .; Zhu, M .; Li, Y ; Chen, L-Z 1999, Lower Cambrian Vertebrates from South China, Nature 402 pp 42 – 46.
In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).
* Conway Morris, Simon.
* James D. Johnson ( d. 2010 ) – late Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court and 1966 Democratic gubernatorial nominee ; resided in Conway with wife Virginia Morris Johnson, his legal secretary and an unsuccessful 1968 candidate for Governor of Arkansas.
As such, it was not until 1976 that Nectocaris was formally described, by Simon Conway Morris.
Because the genus was only known from a single partial specimen with no counterpart, Conway Morris was unable to deduce its affinity.
Conway Morris, on re-examining of the Burgess Shale fauna in the 1970s, described it as being the single known species in an otherwise unknown phylum, given that it has two tentacles near its mouth, rather than the characteristic single tentacle of true nemerteans.
Although some paleontologists regard it as an early chordate allied with Pikaia et al., Conway Morris suggested in 1993 that it might be a Cambrian descendant of the Vendian form Pteridinium, and a frondose morphology is the current vogue.
* 2006 – 07 Simon Conway Morris Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation and Jonathan Riley-Smith The Crusades and Christianity
In 1986, Simon Conway Morris calculated only about 14 % of genera in the Burgess Shale had possessed biomineralized tissues in life.
This is the case in the " Plan of the Bay & Harbour of Conway in Caernarvon Shire " by Lewis Morris and published in 1748, which map boldly shows the name " CREUDDYN " in the body of the peninsula and applies the name " Orme's Head " beyond the Great Orme headland at its north-westerly seaward point.
* Nurturing art in the Venetian scuole, Roderick Conway Morris, International Herald Tribune, FEBRUARY 26, 2005
-by Simon Conway Morris
* Showdown on the Burgess Shale-by Simon Conway Morris and Stephen Jay Gould
* Simon Conway Morris, a paleontologist, endorses the Rare Earth hypothesis in chapter 5 of his Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, and cites Ward and Brownlee's book with approval.
Yet to date, the only evolutionary biologist to speak to the hypothesis at any length is Simon Conway Morris ( 2003 ).
During his re-examination of the Burgess Shale fauna in 1979, paleontologist Simon Conway Morris placed P. gracilens in the chordates, making it perhaps the oldest known ancestor of modern vertebrates, because it seemed to have a very primitive, proto-notochord.
* Conway Morris, Simon.

Conway and views
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly position themselves as skeptics, with their views being given equal time by the media.
After graduation from Harvard University, Conway accepted a call to the First Unitarian Church of Washington, D. C., where he was ordained in 1855, but his anti-slavery views brought about his dismissal in 1856.

Conway and on
A documentary film entitled Forgotten Ellis Island, on the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital was created by Lorie Conway and released in 2008.
James Madison, Jr. was born at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751, ( March 5, 1751, Old Style, Julian calendar ), where his mother had returned to her parents ' home to give birth.
The first version was developed by Fergus Henderson, Thomas Conway and Zoltan Somogyi and was released on April 8, 1995.
There was bad feeling between Grace and some of the 1878 Australians, especially their manager John Conway ; this came to a head on 20 June in a row over the services of Grace's friend Billy Midwinter, an Australian who had played for Gloucestershire in 1877.
* March 15 – The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity ( original name " The Aztecs ") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teacher's College in Conway, Arkansas ( now the University of Central Arkansas ).
Conway was interested in a problem presented in the 1940s by mathematician John von Neumann, who attempted to find a hypothetical machine that could build copies of itself and succeeded when he found a mathematical model for such a machine with very complicated rules on a rectangular grid.
Crawford made three more TV appearances, as Stephanie White in an episode of The Virginian ( 1970 ), entitled " The Nightmare "; as a special guest who performed in multiple sketches on The Tim Conway Comedy Hour ( also in 1970 ) ; and as Joan Fairchild ( her final performance ) on an episode of the television series, The Sixth Sense, entitled, " Dear Joan: We're Going To Scare You To Death " ( 1972 ).
The options available were a Royal Naval cadetship at HMS Britannia, which Dr Shackleton could not afford, the mercantile marine cadet ships Worcester and Conway, or an apprenticeship " before the mast " on a sailing vessel.
Broadcast 20 September to 4 October 1981, it was dramatised by Barry Campbell starring Derek Jacobi as Hugh Conway and Alan Wheatley as the High Lama, and re-broadcast 8 September to 10 September 2010 on BBC Radio 7, and again in March 2012 on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Conway continues on and eventually meets up with a search party sent to find him, although the ordeal has caused him to lose his memory of Shangri-La.
* 23 January: The LVF shot dead Catholic construction worker Liam Conway ( 39 ) on Hesketh Road, Belfast.
After Roy Thomas retired from the post in order to focus on writing, a succession of other editors, including Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Gerry Conway, and Archie Goodwin, took the job during a relatively short span of time, only to find the task too daunting as Marvel continued to grow and add new titles and a larger staff to turn out material.
* the first WYSIWYG integrated circuit editor based on the Conway and Mead paradigm ;
On the management side, Founder Ed Beauvais was removed as CEO, remaining on the board of directors, and was replaced with Mike Conway, who had been with the airline since its start.
After the 2005 General Election, Erith and Thamesmead is represented by a Labour Party MP while the remaining two seats were held by the Conservative Party ; although on 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party whip was withdrawn from Old Bexley and Sidcup's MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds, leaving him as an Independent MP.
Faulkner County was formed from parts of Conway and Pulaski counties on April 12, 1873, and is named after Colonel Sanford C. ' Sandy ' Faulkner who was the composer of the popular fiddle tune " The Arkansas Traveller ".
Conway County was formed on October 20, 1825, from a portion of Pulaski County and named for Henry Wharton Conway who was the territorial delegate to the U. S. Congress.
Conway County was formed on October 20, 1825 from a portion of Pulaski County and named for Henry Wharton Conway who was the territorial delegate to the U. S. Congress.
* Conway finished 2nd out of the state's 40 largest school districts on the statewide benchmark exams.

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