Principal speaker
Dr Henry Gee
Science is commonly understood to be about the accumulation of facts and the shrinking of ignorance. Nothing could be further from the truth, stresses
Dr Henry Gee, lifelong science-watcher and an editor of the international science magazine, Nature. You are invited to join us for the second annual Raymond Dart Lecture, 'The Unknown,' with Dr Gee who suggests that science is not about what we know but more what we don't know. The more we discover, the more we realise how little we know about the world we inhabit. But rather than being a cause of sadness - even terror - we should be energised and excited about the possibilities that await us. Dr Gee uses his own personal experiences at Nature to illustrate what life is like at the cutting edge of knowledge.
Dr Henry Gee, who describes himself as a 'recovering paleontologist', was educated at the universities of Leeds and Cambridge. For the past 30 years he has been an editor at the international weekly science journal 'Nature', where he saw to publication the first feathered dinosaurs as well as the extraordinary 'Hobbit' - Homo floresiensis - and many other remarkable findings. He is the author of several books, the most recent being 'The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution'. He is currently working on a scholarly text about the origin of backboned animals, to be published in 2018. He lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England with his family and numerous pets.
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