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Dr Henry Gee was born in 1962. He was educated at the universities of Leeds and Cambridge. For more than three decades he has been a writer and editor at the international science journal Nature. He is the author of A Very Short History of Life on Earth, winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022. His previous books include The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution; Across The Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates; Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution; Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome; The Science of Middle-Earth, The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire and (with Luis V. Rey) A Field Guide to Dinosaurs. In 2022 he won the Royal Society Science Book Prize for A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, which has been published in over 25 languages. He lives in Cromer, Norfolk, with his family and numerous pets. Raxenne Maniquiz is a graphic designer and illustrator from the Philippines. Her work depicts images of native botanicals and endemic species from her country, appearing in brand campaigns, product packaging, apparel design, stationery, and published materials for companies such as Adobe and Bloomberg. In 2021, she won the prestigious Young Gun award-an international, portfolio-based competition that identifies and celebrates today's vanguard of young creatives.
""A marvellously engaging writer"" (praise for Henry Gee) * The Times *
