Henry Gee
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Henry Gee
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| Born | 24 April 1962 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Cromer, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
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Paleontology Evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | Nature |
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| Notable awards | European Science Fiction Society's Best Publisher Award (2005) |
Henry Gee (born 24 April 1962 in London, England) is a British paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a senior editor of Nature, the scientific journal.
Gee attended Sevenoaks School as a boarder. He later recalled playing a goblin and a troll in a Tolkien school drama production of The Hobbit. He then attended the Michael Hall School.
Gee earned his B.Sc. at the University of Leeds and completed his PhD at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge with a dissertation on "the evolution of bison in Britain in the Ice Age."
Gee joined Nature as a reporter in 1987 and is now Senior Editor, Biological Sciences. He has published a number of books, including In Search of Deep Time (1999),A Field Guide to Dinosaurs (illustrated by Luis Rey) (2003) and Jacob's Ladder (2004).
The Accidental Species, a book on human evolution, was published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2013. According to Stephen Cave, (author of Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation,) Gee writes, "persuasively," that "our obsession with our uniqueness is folly.... We... believe we are so exceptional... that we are the pinnacle of evolution. But this is a misunderstanding: we are just one twig in the thicket, and we could easily have never sprouted at all."
In addition to his professional activities, Gee is a blues musician and a noted Tolkienist. He was the editor of Mallorn, the journal of the Tolkien Society, for nine issues (2008–13). His SF trilogy The Sigil, previously available in draft form online, was published by ReAnimus Press in August and September 2012.
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