Henry Gee
Henry Gee's latest book A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth won the 2022 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. He is represented by Jill Grinberg Literary Management in NY. His blog The End Of The Pier Show continues to delight and mystify both its readers. He lives at the @EndOfThePier in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets.
“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.”
Henry Gee
“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.”
Henry Gee
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.”
Henry Gee