Henry Gee - The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

Friday 14th March 2025
6.30pm

We are excited to announce the first in a new series of events at Aylsham Town Hall! Join us as Nature magazine editor and Royal Society Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee explores the future of our species.

Henry Gee - The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Aylsham Town Hall, Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6EL | We are excited to announce the first in a new series of events at Aylsham Town Hall! Join us as Nature magazine editor and Royal Society Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee explores the future of our species. | Book Author Talk

In ‘Humans Are Doomed To Go Extinct' - a 2021 article in Scientific American - Dr Henry Gee predicted that Homo Sapiens are on a rapid one-way ride to extinction. The article provoked media coverage around the world. In his new book The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Gee expands the themes of his much-discussed article, charting both the rise as well as the fall of humans.

Discussing topics as varied as climate change, a stagnating global economy and plummeting birth rates, Henry will paint a picture of our extinction within the next 10,000 years - and suggest ways that our exceptional species might avoid its fate.

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. His latest book, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, won the 2021 Royal Society Science Book Prize and has been translated into over two dozen languages. He lives in Cromer, Norfolk, with his family and numerous pets.

Price: Tickets £5 (redeemable on book purchases on the night)

Location: Aylsham Town Hall, Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6EL