The Wall Street Journal

• “Instructions for Building an Animal,” 12 Aug 2023
• “Present at the Creation,” 12 Nov 2022
• “Stinging Reputation,” 1 Aug 2022
• “The Brain and Bad Chemistry,” 27 Feb 2022
• “Our Artificial Reality,” 16 Nov 2021
• “Our Fallible Bodies,” 1 Jun 2021
• “Ready for Life in the Long Run,” 27 Feb 2021 (p1), (p2)
• “Wanderers of the Stone Age,” 4 Oct 2020
• “The Soulfulness of a New Machine,” 3 June 2020
• “Two Souls in One Body,” 5 March 2020
• “Desperate Remedies,” 13 Dec 2018
• “A Genetic Pandora’s Box,” 12 Mar 2017

The Washington Post

• “With failed experiments and bizarre successes, evolution marches on,” 12 Dec 2021
• “With a simple tool, humans can create their own evolutionary future,” 22 Nov 2020
• “The insects that seem to defy physics – and have humans under their spell,” 2 Aug 2020

Science

• “The Forgotten Future of the Phage,” Aug 2023
• “Making Modern Medicines,” 22 Dec 2022
• “Life-Changing Biology,” 7 Mar 2022
• “Evolution on Other Worlds,” 26 Feb 2021
• “Repairing Damaged Brains,” 17 Apr 2020
• “Leveraging Nature’s Toolkit,” 26 Apr 2019
• “Putting Sleep Myths to Bed,” 24 Aug 2018
• “Inevitable or Improbable?”, 28 July 2017
• “Tinkering with Evolution,” 10 Nov 2016
• “Winning the War,” 1 Jan 2016
• “The Meaning of Microbes,” 20 Feb 2015
• “How the Human Animal Found Its Self,” 28 May 2004

Nature

• “Foundations of Mental Illness,” February 2019
• “The Messy Biological Basis of Culture,” February 2018
• “Mob Rule,” 11 August 2016
• “At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity,” 14 July 2016
• “An Improbable Journey,” 30 April 2015
• “Crash and Burn,” 16 June 2005

The Spectator

• “Laurels for Ardi,” 1 Jan 2021
• “Nature fights back,” 9 May 2020
• “The Matter of the Heart,” 17 June 2017

GEN Biotechnology

• “Songs in the Key of Life,” 28 Dec 2022
• “The Fate of the Extended Genome,” 29 Jan 2022

The Literary Review

• “Deoxyribonucleic Ascent,” January 2019
• “Final Frontiers,” April 2018
• “Raising Awareness,” 22 Aug 2017
• “Gene Genie,” July 2017

The Times Literary Supplement

• “Insect + courtesy = ant,” 8 June 2018
• “See what you think,” 9 Dec 2016

The New Statesman

• “Voice Activated,” 15 May 2018

Financial Times

• “A Surgeon’s Story”, 3 June 2017

Prospect Magazine

• “Is language innate? A new book argues otherwise,” November 2017

The Evening Standard

• Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker by A.N. Wilson – review, 24 Aug 2017

Daedalus

• “Synthetic Life,” Winter 2008

London Review of Books

• “Make Your Own Monster,” Jan 2005
• “How to Make a Mermaid,” Feb 2004
• “Genetic Mountaineering,” Feb 2003
• “How Did the Slime Mould Cross the Maze?” March 2002
• “So Much For Genes,” March 2001

The Telegraph

• “Just What’s to Become of Us?” 14 Aug 2005
• “Baby’s First Tunes,” 17 Jul 2005
• “The Baby As Mind-Reader,” 16 Jul 2004