DIVINING NATURE'S PLAN, humanity was inevitable

DIVINING NATURE'S PLAN (Science & Society)
US News & World Report
"In a very real way, humanity was inevitable."
-- Simon Conway Morris, author of a new book, Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe

Tiny wormlike creatures, tanklike trilobites, and flowerlike animals lived some 515 million years ago toward the end of a period of remarkable evolutionary invention known as the Cambrian explosion.

It's a bizarre scene, and most biologists believe that only a bizarre sequence of accidents and happenstance ultimately transformed one of those creatures into us.

But the paleontologist Simon Conway Morris disagrees. It's a radical reinterpretation of life's history and it also suggests a route toward armistice in the battle between evolution and religion.

We may have even more in common with animals than our similar genetics suggest:

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