Gee joined Nature as a reporter in 1987 and is now Senior Editor, Biological Sciences.[7] He has published a number of books, including[8][9][10]In Search of Deep Time (1999),[11][12]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.[13][14] 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."[15]
In addition to his professional activities, Gee is a blues musician and a Tolkienist.[14] He was the editor of Mallorn, the journal of the Tolkien Society, for nine issues (2008–13).[7] His science fiction trilogy The Sigil, previously available in draft form online, was published by ReAnimus Press in August and September 2012.[16][17][18]
On 17 January 2014, Gee revealed the identity ofpseudonymous science blogger, Dr. Isis on Twitter.[19] Dr. Isis was an open critic of the scientific journal Nature, where Gee is a senior editor. Nature released a statement on the matter.[20]
^ abSale, 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. ProQuest310813267.
^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. doi:10.1086/420184. JSTOR3036559. S2CID85669111.
^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.
