4 Quotes & Sayings By Henry Gee

Henry Gee is a former managing editor of Time magazine and a current contributing editor of The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of bestselling books on the history of computing, including Empires of the Information Age: A History of the Information Revolution. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, and other publications. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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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
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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
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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