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==Career==
==Career==
Gee joined ''Nature'' as a reporter in 1987 and is now Senior Editor, Biological Sciences.<ref name="profile">{{cite news|url=http://network.nature.com/profile/henrygee |title=Henry Gee's profile |work=Nature Network |year=2011 |accessdate=9 December 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121151316/http://network.nature.com/profile/henrygee |archivedate=21 November 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He has published a number of books, including <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Northcutt|first=R. Glenn|date=1996-01-01|year=|editor-last=Gee|editor-first=Henry|title=Heads and Tails|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2890927|journal=Science|volume=274|issue=5293|pages=1629–1629|subscription=yes|via=JSTOR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gans|first=Carl|date=1997-01-01|year=|title=Review of Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3884031|journal=American Zoologist|volume=37|issue=4|pages=433–434|subscription=yes|via=JSTOR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Horder|first=T. J.|date=1998-01-01|year=|editor-last=Gee|editor-first=Henry|editor2-last=Bowler|editor2-first=Peter J.|editor3-last=Nyhart|editor3-first=Lynn K.|title=Why do Scientists Need to be Historians?|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3036559|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=73|issue=2|pages=175–187|subscription=yes|via=JSTOR}}</ref> ''In Search of Deep Time'' (1999),<ref name="Campbell">{{cite web|url=http://www.acampbell.ukfsn.org/bookreviews/r/gee.html|title=Book review: ''In Search of Deep Time''|first=|date=|year=2001|website=|publisher=|access-date=1 September 2011|quote=Henry Gee, who is now Senior Editor of ''Nature'', was a witness of this turmoil because he was working at the [[Natural History Museum, London|museum]] as a student in the 1970s, when he got to know the chief actors in the drama. He remains convinced that the science of [[cladistics]] is a vital intellectual tool for our understanding of what he calls [[Deep time|Deep Time]], to distinguish it from ordinary historical time, which he sees as being [[Qualitative research|qualitatively]] as well as [[Quantitative research|quantitatively]] different.|author=Campbell, Anthony}}</ref><ref name="VinesRelated">{{cite news|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/311638032/fulltext/DBFAE90D403149BBPQ/2?accountid=10226|title=Sorry, but are we related?|date=8 April 2000|work=|publisher=[[The Independent]]|subscription=yes|via=Proquest|last1=Vines|first1=Gail|accessdate=18 January 2017}}</ref> ''A Field Guide to Dinosaurs'' (illustrated by [[Luis Rey]]) (2003) and ''Jacob's Ladder'' (2004).
Gee joined ''Nature'' as a reporter in 1987 and is now Senior Editor, Biological Sciences.<ref name="profile">{{cite news|url=http://network.nature.com/profile/henrygee |title=Henry Gee's profile |work=Nature Network |year=2011 |accessdate=9 December 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121151316/http://network.nature.com/profile/henrygee |archivedate=21 November 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He has published a number of books, including <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Northcutt|first=R. Glenn|date=1996-01-01|year=|editor-last=Gee|editor-first=Henry|title=Heads and Tails|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2890927|journal=Science|volume=274|issue=5293|pages=1629–1629|subscription=yes|via=JSTOR|bibcode=1996Sci...274.1629G|doi=10.1126/science.274.5293.1629}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gans|first=Carl|date=1997-01-01|year=|title=Review of Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3884031|journal=American Zoologist|volume=37|issue=4|pages=433–434|subscription=yes|via=JSTOR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Horder|first=T. J.|date=1998-01-01|year=|editor-last=Gee|editor-first=Henry|editor2-last=Bowler|editor2-first=Peter J.|editor3-last=Nyhart|editor3-first=Lynn K.|title=Why do Scientists Need to be Historians?|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3036559|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=73|issue=2|pages=175–187|subscription=yes|via=JSTOR}}</ref> ''In Search of Deep Time'' (1999),<ref name="Campbell">{{cite web|url=http://www.acampbell.ukfsn.org/bookreviews/r/gee.html|title=Book review: ''In Search of Deep Time''|first=|date=|year=2001|website=|publisher=|access-date=1 September 2011|quote=Henry Gee, who is now Senior Editor of ''Nature'', was a witness of this turmoil because he was working at the [[Natural History Museum, London|museum]] as a student in the 1970s, when he got to know the chief actors in the drama. He remains convinced that the science of [[cladistics]] is a vital intellectual tool for our understanding of what he calls [[Deep time|Deep Time]], to distinguish it from ordinary historical time, which he sees as being [[Qualitative research|qualitatively]] as well as [[Quantitative research|quantitatively]] different.|author=Campbell, Anthony}}</ref><ref name="VinesRelated">{{cite news|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/311638032/fulltext/DBFAE90D403149BBPQ/2?accountid=10226|title=Sorry, but are we related?|date=8 April 2000|work=|publisher=[[The Independent]]|subscription=yes|via=Proquest|last1=Vines|first1=Gail|accessdate=18 January 2017}}</ref> ''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.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo12789718.html|title=Accidental Species|work=[[University of Chicago Press]]| year= 2013 | accessdate=3 January 2014}}</ref><ref name="WaPoReview">{{cite news|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/1461911495/fulltext/8B9F1D7BAE5245F7PQ/3?accountid=10226|title=A new book challenges the common view of human evolution.|last=|first=|date=25 November 2013|work=|publisher=[[Washington Post]]|subscription=yes|via=Proquest|accessdate=18 January 2017}}</ref> According to [[Stephen Cave (journalist)|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."<ref name="CabeHumanTouch">{{cite news|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/1505387176/fulltext/8B9F1D7BAE5245F7PQ/7?accountid=10226|title=The Human Touch|date=8 February 2014|work=|publisher=[[Financial Times]]|subscription=yes|via=Proquest|last1=Cave|first1=Stephen|accessdate=18 January 2017}}</ref>
''The Accidental Species'', a book on human evolution, was published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo12789718.html|title=Accidental Species|work=[[University of Chicago Press]]| year= 2013 | accessdate=3 January 2014}}</ref><ref name="WaPoReview">{{cite news|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/1461911495/fulltext/8B9F1D7BAE5245F7PQ/3?accountid=10226|title=A new book challenges the common view of human evolution.|last=|first=|date=25 November 2013|work=|publisher=[[Washington Post]]|subscription=yes|via=Proquest|accessdate=18 January 2017}}</ref> According to [[Stephen Cave (journalist)|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."<ref name="CabeHumanTouch">{{cite news|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/1505387176/fulltext/8B9F1D7BAE5245F7PQ/7?accountid=10226|title=The Human Touch|date=8 February 2014|work=|publisher=[[Financial Times]]|subscription=yes|via=Proquest|last1=Cave|first1=Stephen|accessdate=18 January 2017}}</ref>

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For the Dean of Gloucester, see Henry Gee (priest).

Henry Gee
Henry Gee
Born24 April 1962
London, England, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
AwardsEuropean Science Fiction Society's Best Publisher Award (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
Evolutionary biology
InstitutionsNature

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.[1]

Early life and education

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.[2]

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."[2]

Career

Gee joined Nature as a reporter in 1987 and is now Senior Editor, Biological Sciences.[3] He has published a number of books, including [4][5][6] In Search of Deep Time (1999),[7][8] 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.[9][10] 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."[11]

In addition to his professional activities, Gee is a blues musician and a noted Tolkienist.[10] He was the editor of Mallorn, the journal of the Tolkien Society, for nine issues (2008–13).[3] His SF trilogy The Sigil, previously available in draft form online, was published by ReAnimus Press in August and September 2012.

On 17 January 2014, Gee revealed the identity of pseudonymous science blogger, Dr. Isis on Twitter.[12] Dr. Isis was an open critic of the scientific journal Nature, where Gee is a senior editor. Nature released a statement on the matter.[13]

Books

  • 1996: Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates New York: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 0-412-48300-9. ISBN 978-0-412-48300-4.
  • 1999: In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life. Sacramento: Comstock Publishing. (Note: The first chapter may be read on The New York Times website.) Hardcover: ISBN 0-684-85421-X. Paperback: ISBN 0-8014-8713-7.
  • 2001: (second edition) Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution. ISBN 1-85702-987-9.
  • 2003: A Field Guide To Dinosaurs: The Essential Handbook For Travelers In The Mesozoic. Illustrations by Luis Rey. Hauppage: Barron's Educational Series. ISBN 0-7641-5511-3.
  • 2004: Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-05083-1.
  • 2004: The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining The Science Behind The Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told! Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. 2004 hardcover: ISBN 1-59360-023-2. 2005 paperback: ISBN 0-285-63723-1. (Reviewed in The Guardian)[14]
  • 2008: (ed.) Futures from Nature. New York: Tor Books. ISBN 0-7653-1805-9.
  • 2013: The Accidental Species: MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226284880. (Reviewed in The Daily Telegraph)[15]
  • 2014: (ed. with Colin Sullivan) Nature Futures 2. New York: Tor Books. ISBN 978-1-4668-7998-0.

References

  1. ^ Nature. "About the editors". Henry Gee, Senior Editor, Biology, London. Education: BSc, University of Leeds; PhD, University of Cambridge. Areas of responsibility include: aspects of integrative and comparative biology (including palaeontology, evolutionary developmental biology, taxonomy and systematics), archaeology and biomechanics.
  2. ^ a b Sale, Jonathan (16 June 2005). "'I was 516th Goblin and a Female Troll' ; An education in the life of Henry Gee, writer, scientist and Middle Earth boffin". The Independent. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Henry Gee's profile". Nature Network. 2011. Archived from the original on 21 November 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2011. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Northcutt, R. Glenn (1 January 1996). Gee, Henry (ed.). "Heads and Tails". Science. 274 (5293): 1629–1629. Bibcode:1996Sci...274.1629G. doi:10.1126/science.274.5293.1629 – via JSTOR. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Gans, Carl (1 January 1997). "Review of Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates". American Zoologist. 37 (4): 433–434 – via JSTOR. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Horder, T. J. (1 January 1998). Gee, Henry; Bowler, Peter J.; Nyhart, Lynn K. (eds.). "Why do Scientists Need to be Historians?". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 73 (2): 175–187 – via JSTOR. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Campbell, Anthony (2001). "Book review: In Search of Deep Time". Retrieved 1 September 2011. Henry Gee, who is now Senior Editor of Nature, was a witness of this turmoil because he was working at the museum as a student in the 1970s, when he got to know the chief actors in the drama. He remains convinced that the science of cladistics is a vital intellectual tool for our understanding of what he calls Deep Time, to distinguish it from ordinary historical time, which he sees as being qualitatively as well as quantitatively different.
  8. ^ Vines, Gail (8 April 2000). "Sorry, but are we related?". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2017 – via Proquest. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "Accidental Species". University of Chicago Press. 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  10. ^ a b "A new book challenges the common view of human evolution". Washington Post. 25 November 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2017 – via Proquest. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ Cave, Stephen (8 February 2014). "The Human Touch". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 January 2017 – via Proquest. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ Lecher, Colin. "Why Did This Top Science Journal Editor Expose A Blogger's Pen Name?".
  13. ^ "Press release archive: About NPG". www.nature.com. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  14. ^ Alok, Jha (19 May 2005). "The Science of Middle-earth". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 January 2017 – via Proquest. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ "The Accidental Species (book review)". The Daily Telegraph. 1 December 2013 – via Proquest. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
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