Henry Gee
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 Henry Gee
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| Born | 1962 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Paleontology Evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | Nature |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge |
| Notable awards | European Science Fiction Society's Best Publisher Award (2005) |
Dr Henry Gee (b. 1962 in London, England) is a British paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a senior editor of Nature, the scientific journal.[1]
Gee earnt his B.Sc. at the University of Leeds and completed his Ph. D. at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where, in his spare time, he played keyboard for a jazz band fronted by Sonita Alleyne, who went on to establish the TV and radio production company Somethin’ Else.[2] Gee joined Nature as a reporter in 1987 and is now Senior Editor, Biological Sciences. He has published a number of books, including Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates (1996), In Search of Deep Time (1999),[3][4] A Field Guide to Dinosaurs (illustrated by Luis Rey) (2003) and Jacob's Ladder (2004).
Gee is a noted Tolkienist and is the current editor of Mallorn, the official Journal of the Tolkien Society.[5] His book The Science of Middle-Earth (2004) is expected to be available as an eBook in 2012.
[edit] Futures
In 2005, Nature was awarded the European Science Fiction Society's Best Publisher award for the "Futures" series of short articles and science fiction which Gee instigated in 1999.[6] "Futures," briefly absent from Nature, was revived in 2007 (and for 2007 and 2008 ran in both Nature and its sister publication, Nature Physics).[7][8] One hundred of the features which originally appeared in Nature between 1999 and 2006 were published as the collection Futures from Nature in 2008.[9]
[edit] Books
- 1996: Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates New York: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 0412483009. ISBN 978-0412483004.
- 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 0-68485-421-X. Paperback: ISBN 0-80148-713-7.
- 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 0-76415-511-3.
- 2004: Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-39305-083-1.
- 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 1-5936-0023-2. 2005 paperback: ISBN 0-28563-723-1.
- 2008: (ed.) Futures from Nature. New York: Tor Books. ISBN 0-76531-805-9.
[edit] References
- ^ Nature. "About the editors". http://www.nature.com/nature/about/editors/index.html. "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."
- ^ "An’ all that jazz". Optima (p. 7). 2005. http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/mi-client/media/import/documents/Optima8.pdf. Retrieved 09 December 2011.
- ^ Campbell, Anthony (September 2011). "Book review: In Search of Deep Time". http://www.acampbell.ukfsn.org/bookreviews/r/gee.html. |year= 2001 |quote= 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[[{{subst:DATE|date=September 2011}}|{{subst:DATE|date=September 2011}}]] [disambiguation needed
] different. }} - ^ National Center for Science Education (October 15, 2001). "Gee Responds to Discovery Institute Use of Quotations". http://www.natcenscied.org/resources/articles/3167_pr90_10152001__gee_responds_10_15_2001.asp. "The Discovery Institute’s Viewers Guide to the PBS “Evolution” series… attempts to discredit the scientific implications of the human fossil record by quoting (on pages 11, 40, 47, 88, and 111) passages from the 1999 book In Search of Deep Time by Dr. Henry Gee, who is also Senior Editor, Biological Sciences, for the journal Nature. Dr. Gee has sent us the following comments."
- ^ "Henry Gee's profile". Nature Network. 2011. http://network.nature.com/profile/henrygee. Retrieved 09 December 2011.
- ^ European Science Fiction Society. "The ESFS Awards, Eurocon 2005: Glasgow - Scotland". http://www.esfs.info/esfs-awards-2000.html#2005.
- ^ "Web Focus: Futures". Nature (Additional samples on Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation.org). http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/arts/futures/index.html.
- ^ "Futures Archive". Nature Physics. http://www.nature.com/nphys/archive/categ_fut_012008.html.
- ^ Henry Gee, editor. "Futures from Nature: 100 Speculative fictions from the pages of the leading science journal". New York City: Tor Books (1/1/2008). ISBN 0-7653-1805-9, ISBN 978-0-7653-1805-3. http://www.tor-forge.com/futuresfromnature. "With stories from: Arthur C. Clarke, Bruce Sterling, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Oliver Morton, Ian R. MacLeod, Rudy Rucker, Greg Egan, Stephen Baxter, Barrington J. Bayley, Brian Stableford, Frederik Pohl, Vernor Vinge, Nancy Kress, Michael Moorcock, Vonda McIntyre, Kim Stanley Robinson, John M. Ford and eighty more."
