Lewis Turow is a geneticist working in Long Island City, New York. He hates New York but moved there for the opportunity to work in a world-class genetics laboratory. During the events of Relic, a sample of the claw removed from Billy Bridgeman's body was sent to his lab for analysis. Turow was confused when the material did not match any of the animals in the target group (big cats) and was instead a partial match with a human and a Turkish Gecko. He assumed the sample was a joke and identified it as belonging to Homo gekkopiens.