From Extraterrestrials to Animal MindsIn this learned romp of science writing, Cambridge professor Simon Conway Morris cheerfully challenges six assumptionswhat he calls mythsthat too often pass as unquestioned truths amongst the evolutionary orthodox. His convivial tour begins with the idea that evolution is boundless in the kinds of biological systems it can produce. Not true, he says. The process is highly circumscribed and delimited. Nor is it random. This popular notion holds that