Stories by Henry Gee

Henry Gee is a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and editor at Nature. His latest book is A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth (St. Martin’s Press, 2021).

Evolution

Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse

1 hour ago — Henry Gee | Opinion

The Sciences

Science Fiction Excerpt: Vladimir and the Noosphere

We hope you enjoy this introduction from Nature 's award-winning "Futures" science-fiction series, now an eBook, "Nostalgia for the Future (Revisited), a story of Vladimir's choice, year unknown"...

December 30, 2013 — Henry Gee and Nature magazine

The Sciences

Tricky, Turbulent, Tribal

Friend or foe is a mutable designation

November 21, 2005 — Henry Gee

Technology

Existential Terroir in Northern California

140 million years of geologic history in a bottle of wine

August 23, 2004 — Henry Gee