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Henry Gee

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in London, The United Kingdom

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http://www.averyshorthistoryoflifeonearth.com

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@EndOfThePier

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Science, Science Fiction, Horror

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Jorge Luis Borges, JRR Tolkien, Beatrix Potter, Arthur C Clarke, J R R ...more

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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. ...more

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	A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters 4.05 avg rating — 2,365 ratings — published 2021 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution 3.89 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Futures from Nature 3.48 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Deep Time (Comstock Books) 4.01 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining The Science Behind The Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told! by Henry Gee (Goodreads Author), David Brin (Goodreads Author) (Foreword by) 3.53 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Field Guide to Dinosaurs: The Essential Handbook for Travelers in the Mesozoic by Henry Gee (Goodreads Author), Luis V. Rey 4.30 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome 3.63 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siege of Stars: Book 1 of the Sigil Trilogy 3.20 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature Futures 2: Science Fiction from the Leading Science Journal by Henry Gee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Colin Sullivan (Editor), Gareth D. Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Alastair Reynolds: Aurora Rising I’m always on for one of Alastair Reynolds’ space operas, tinged as they are with a certain gothic menace, so imagine my delight when I came across two that I’d never seen before, Elysium Fire and Machine Vendetta, more on which below. These are sequels, of a sort, to a novel I’d read long ago called The Prefect, now renamed Aurora Rising. I prefer the old title, t

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“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, In Search of Deep Time

tags: biology, confessions-of-the-darwinists, darwin, darwinism, darwinist-confessions, evolution, fossil-record, fossils, macro-evolution, macroevolution, neo-darwinism, paleontology, science

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“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.”
― Henry Gee, In Search of Deep Time

tags: darwin, evolution

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“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, In Search of Deep Time

tags: evolution

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