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The intervals of time that separate the fossils are so huge that we cannot say anything definite about their possible connection through ancestry and descent.

Henry Gee

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

Henry Gee

Henry Gee

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Born: April 24, 1962 (age 62)

Bio: Dr Henry Gee is a British paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a senior editor of Nature, the scientific journal.

Known for:

A Field Guide to Dinosaurs (2003)
Futures from Nature
Shaking the Tree
Jacob's Ladder

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