Henry Gee was also the name of a Mayor of Chester in the 1500s.
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.
Henry Gee's books include In Search of Deep Time; A Field Guide to Dinosaurs with illustrations by Luis Rey; Jacob's Ladder; and The Science of Middle-Earth. His other writings include two works of free on-line fiction, The Sigil and By The Sea.
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. "Futures," briefly absent from Nature, was revived in 2007. One hundred of the features which originally appeared in Nature between 1999 and 2006 were published as the collection Futures from Nature in 2008.
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: 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.