🎅 Dr Henry Gee: 'At this time of year, my office is a Santa’s grotto' The evolutionary biologist and writer on taking inspiration from Borges, the Natural History Museum and resembling a character from his sci-fi novel The Sigil
December 15, 2022 1:28 pmI’m looking out at the view from the train whizzing from London to Norfolk, where I live., who spent his whole career as a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum. Fortey recommended it to me as he said aspects of his own life reminded him of mine. And he was right. It’s uncanny. I’m also nearly the whole way through Edward Gibbon’s. Written in the 1780s, the prose is as elegant as Georgian architecture. But it wouldn’t do for every day.
Apart from Sir David Attenborough, which goes without saying, an Italian priest and proto-scientist called, who died in 1799. He proved that male frogs were essential for fertilising the eggs laid by female frogs – by experiment. He sewed tiny taffeta trousers which he made the male frogs wear before each amorous encounter. Only trouserless frogs succeeded.
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