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Life's Solution builds a persuasive case for the predictability

of evolutionary outcomes. The case rests on a remarkable

compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or

more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and

functions. The examples range from the aerodynamics of hovering

moths and hummingbirds to the use of silk by spiders and some

insects to capture prey. Going against the grain of Darwinian

orthodoxy, this book is a must read for anyone grappling with the

meaning of evolution and our place in the Universe. Simon Conway

Morris is the Ad Hominen Professor in the Earth Science Department

at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St. John's College

and the Royal Society. His research focuses on the study of

constraints on evolution, and the historical processes that lead to

the emergence of complexity, especially with respect to the

construction of the major animal body parts in the Cambrian

explosion. Previous books include The Crucible of Creation (Getty

Center for Education in the Arts, 1999) and co-author of Solnhofen

(Cambridge, 1990). Hb ISBN (2003) 0-521-82704-3

Preface. The Cambridge sandwich page xi

  Acknowledgements xvii

  List of abbreviations xix

1.   Looking for Easter Island

  Inherency: where is the ground plan in evolution?

  The navigation of protein hyperspace

  The game of life

  Eerie perfection

  Finding Easter Island

2.   Can we break the great code?

  The ground floor

  DNA: the strangest of all molecules?

3.   Universal goo: life as a cosmic principle?

  A Martini the size of the Pacific

  Goo from the sky

  Back to deep space

  A life-saving rain?

4.   The origin of life: straining the soup or our

credulity?

  Finding its path

  Problems with experiments

  On the flat

  Back to the test tube

  A sceptic’s charter

5.   Uniquely lucky? The strangeness of Earth

  The shattered orb

  Battering the Earth

  The Mars express

  Making the Solar System

  Rare Moon

  Just the right size

  Jupiter and the comets

  Just the right place

  A cosmic fluke?

6.   Converging on the extreme

  Universal chlorophyll?

  The wheels of life?

  Fortean bladders

  A silken convergence

  Matrices and skeletons

  Play it again!

  Attacking convergence

  Convergence: on the ground, above the ground, under the

ground

7.   Seeing convergence

  A balancing act

  Returning the gaze

  Eyes of an alien?

  Clarity and colour vision

  Universal rhodopsin?

  Smelling convergence

  The echo of convergence

  Shocking convergence

  Hearing convergence

  Thinking convergence?

8.   Alien convergences?

  Down in the farm

  Military convergence

  Convergent complexities

  Hearts and minds

  Honorary mammals

  Giving birth to convergence

  Warming to convergence, singing of convergence, chewing

convergence

9.   The non-prevalence of humanoids?

  Interstellar nervous systems?

  The conceptualizing pancake

  The bricks and mortar of life

  Genes and networks

  Jack, the railway baboon

  Giant brains

  Grasping convergence

  Converging on the humanoid

  Converging on the ultimate

10.   Evolution bound: the ubiquity of convergence

  Ubiquitous convergence

  Respiratory convergence

  Freezing convergence, photosynthetic convergence

  The molecules converge

  Convergence and evolution

  Converging trends

  A possible research programme

11.   Towards a theology of evolution

  An evolutionary embedment

  Darwin’s priesthood

  Heresy! Heresy!!

  Genetic fundamentalism

  A path to recovery?

  Converging on convergence

12.   Last word

Notes

Index

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