Gene Hunt has, so far, resisted the pressures of nominative determinism. Gene Hunt does not hunt for genes.
No. Gene Hunt hunts for explanations for evolutionary patterns as expressed in the fossil record. “Empirically,” Gene Hunt says, “I most often work with ostracodes – small, bivalved crustaceans – with much of this work to date on deep-sea forms.”
Gene Hunt, Ph.D., is the curator of Ostracoda in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
Among Gene Hunt’s many publications, you’ll find the metaphorically as well as non-metaphorically cutting-edge study:
Green, Walton A., Hunt, Gene, Wing, Scott L. and DiMichele, William A. 2011. Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction,Paleobiology, 37(1):72-91