The Wall Street Journal
- “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 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
The Spectator
- “Laurels for Ardi,” 1 Jan 2021
- “Nature fights back,” 9 May 2020
- “The Matter of the Heart,” 17 June 2017
Science
- “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 Literary Review
- “Deoxyribonucleic Ascent,” January 2019
- “Final Frontiers,” April 2018
- “Raising Awareness,” 22 Aug 2017
- “Gene Genie,” July 2017
The Times Literary Supplement
The New Statesman
Financial Times
Prospect Magazine
The Evening Standard
Daedalus
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