The New Statesman

• “Voice Activated,” 15 May 2018

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

The Literary Review

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

The Spectator

• “The Matter of the Heart,” 17 June 2017

Financial Times

• “A Surgeon’s Story”, 3 June 2017

The Wall Street Journal

• “A Genetic Pandora’s Box,” 12 Mar 2017

The Times Literary Supplement

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

Nature

• “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

Science

• “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

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

Daedalus

• “Synthetic Life,” Winter 2008