Henry Gee

Henry Gee (born 1962 in London, England) is an English scientist in the fields of paleontology and evolutionary biology and author.

Life

Gee received his Bachelor of Science at the University of Leeds and his doctorate at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. There he played in his spare time at the keyboard for a jazz band.

Since 1987 he has worked in the field of biology of the British journal Nature and is now editor in chief. In recent decades, he was the author of several works on the subjects of development history of mankind and the animal world. He is also editor of the official journal of the Tolkienisten, Mallorn.

Publications

• Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates. Springer Science and Business Media, New York 1996, ISBN 0-412-48300-9.
• In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life. Comstock Publishing, Sacramento, California, USA 1999, ISBN 0 - 684-85421 -X.
• A Field Guide of Dinosaurs: The Essential Handbook for Travelers in the Mesozoic. illustrated by Luis Rey. Hauppage, Barron 's Educational Series, 2003, ISBN 0-7641-5511-3.
• Jacob 's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome. WW Norton & Co., New York 2004, ISBN 0-393-05083-1.
• The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining the Science Behind the Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, 2004, ISBN 1-59360-023-2. German Marcel Bülles: The Science in Tolkien. Wiley- VCH Verlag, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-527-50435-0.

• Futures from Nature. 100 Speculative Fictions. Tor Books, New York City, USA 2008, ISBN 978-0-7653-1805-3.