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Prizes
Templeton Prize goes to the palaeontologist who thinks minds are inevitable
Simon Conway Morris, whose Burgess Shale work supplied the evidence for Stephen Jay Gould's 'Wonderful Life', has taken the 2026 Templeton Prize for arguing that Gould read those fossils backwards. His thesis — that evolution converges on eyes, flight and intelligence — carries a philosophical bill that his critics say he has not paid.
Eric Schwitzgebel, Jeremy Pober, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Simon Conway Morris
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