Turned
Out
Nice:
How
the
British
Isles
Will
Change
as
the
World
Heats
Up
Faber
&
Faber, 2010.
' ...
grimly realistic and yet in many ways inspiring ... A
richly
detailed, engrossingly readable history of how Britain came to be the
way it is, Turned Out Nice is also a riveting description of
what Britain is likely to become.' John
Gray, New Statesman
' ...
injects some delightful coolness and subtlety into all
this' Andrew
Marr, Financial Times
' a tour de force of information and speculation ... Nature writing which takes the future and its possibilities as seriously as the past ' The Economist
'intimate
and
stylish' Fred
Pearce, Guardian
' a
science writer of rare gifts' Marcus
Berkmann, Daily Mail
Summertime
2100, and the living isn't easy (edited extract from Turned Out
Nice, Independent on Sunday
30 may 2010)
Turned Out Nice: Blackwell Online podcast.
A
Different
Climate: The
Thought Fox blog post about our relationship with the
future.
Oxford University Press, 2008.
'Brilliant' - Guardian
Trust: The Page 99 Test
A Reason For Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination
Faber & Faber, 2004.
'Brilliant' - Sunday Telegraph
'Beautifully written' - Times
'Brilliant ... beautifully written' - Daily Telegraph
'a supremely intelligent author’ - Graham Farmelo, London Sunday Telegraph
'A marvellous
book' - James Flint, New
Scientist
'a wonderful writer' - A.C. Grayling, Literary Review
'yet another brilliant
book' - Neal
Ascherson, London Observer
'a talented and witty
writer' - Paul Harvey FRS, Times
Higher Education Supplement
As
We
Know
It:
Coming
to
Terms
with
an
Evolved
Mind
Granta, 1999.
"Utterly fascinating
... a
beautiful and moving picture of evolution." - Andrew Marr, Observer
Dope
Girls:
The
Birth
of
the
British
Drug
Underground
Latest
edition Granta,
2003.
"The best,
most
perceptive and most authoritative account of the British drug scene
ever." - Will Self
The Chemical
Generation and its Ancestors: Dance Crazes and Drug Panics across Eight
Decades (International Journal of Drugs Policy
8/3, 1997)
The Race
Gallery: The Return of Racial Science
Jonathan Cape, 1995.
Chapter 11: The
Seacoast of Macedonia
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Review of Bernie Krause's The Great Animal Orchestra (Independent 5 May 2012)
Review of Mark Pagel's Wired for Culture (Independent 16 March 2012)
Climate, environment, the future
Various
The Wellcome at 75 (Financial Times 24 September 2011)
Review of Charles C. Mann's 1493 (Financial Times 24 September 2011)
Review of Philip Ball's Unnatural (Independent 25 February 2011)
A
film
that
explores
sound
and
memory (Sound
Seam by Aura Satz: Financial
Times 8 January 2011)
Review of Jenny Diski's What I Don't Know About Animals (Independent 19 November 2010)
Review
of C.J. Chivers's The Gun: The AK-47
and the Evolution of War
(Independent 5 November 2010)
Review
of Sissela Bok's Exploring Happiness
(Financial Times 21 August 2010)
Book of a Lifetime: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (Independent 4 June 2010)
Materiel
World (essay for Suzanne Treister's NATO project)
Climate, environment, the future
Review
of Mark Lynas's The God Species (Financial Times 16 July 2011)
Who needs oil? London in mid-21st century (Evening Standard 13 May 2011)
Review of Tim Flannery's Here on Earth (Observer 20 March 2011
Review of John Gray's The Immortalization Commission (Independent 28 January 2011)
Climate change is a hard sell - especially when it's freezing out (Guardian 10 December 2010)
Review
of Matthew Kahn's Climatopolis
(Financial Times 2
October 2010)
Trust
MPs
must
be
told
what
we
expect
before
trust
can
blossom
again (Times
22
June 2009 - subscription required)
Who can you trust? (New Statesman 26 June 2008)
Review of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow (Independent 18 November 2011)
Review of Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature (Independent 7 October 2011)
Review
of Richard Fortey's Survivors
(Independent 9 September 2011)
Review of Chris Stringer's The Origin of Our Species (first published in Literary Review August 2011)
Review of David Lewis-Williams and Sam Challis's Deciphering Ancient Minds (Independent 10 June 2011)
Can modern science explain gender differences or our capacity for cruelty and kindness? (Independent 1 October 2010)
Review of Dennis Sewell's The Political Gene (London Independent 8 January 2010)
Review of Peter Forbes's Dazzled and Deceived (London Independent 30 October 2009)
Review
of Richard Dawkins's The Greatest
Show on Earth (London Independent
18 September 2009)
Did Charles Darwin believe in racial inequality? (London Independent 30 January 2009)
Review of Michael Boulter's Darwin's Garden (London Independent 25 July 2008)
Review of Richard Fortey's Dry Store Room No. 1 (London Independent 15 February 2008)
Review
of James D. Watson's Avoid
Boring People: Lessons from a
Life in Science and J. Craig Venter's A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life (London
Independent 2 November
2007)
Review
of Stephen Murdoch's IQ: The Brilliant Idea That Failed (London Independent 20 July 2007)
Review
of Steve Jones's Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise and Mark
Lynas's Six Degrees: Our
Future on a Hotter Planet (London Independent 13 April 2007)
Review
of Michael Ruse's Darwinism
and
its
Discontents and George Levine's Darwin Loves You (London Independent 13 January 2007)
Ideas: Neanderthals (New Statesman 30 October 2006)
Review
of Richard Dawkins's The God
Delusion (London Independent
20 September 2006)
Ideas: Sex on the Brain : on sex differences (New Statesman 7 August 2006)
Savannahstan: Beyond Africa and Asia
(author's
version of 'Made in Savannahstan', New
Scientist
1 July 2006)
Review
of Lewis Wolpert's Six
Impossible
Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief (London
Independent 21 April
2006)
Review
of Daniel Dennett's Breaking
the
Spell:
Religion
as
a
Natural
Phenomenon (London Independent
10 March 2006)
Review
of Robert Sapolsky's Monkeyluv, and
Other Lessons on Our Lives as Animals (London Independent 11 January 2006)
Review
of Steven Mithen's The
Singing
Neanderthals (London Independent
29 July 2005)
Ebu Gogo, Dwarf or Hobbit? (author's
version of 'The Little Troublemaker', New
Scientist
18 June 2005)
Review
of Ian McEwan's Saturday
(London Independent 4
February 2005)
John Maynard Smith 1920 - 2004
Darwin Day and the Peppered Moths (Independent on Sunday London section 29 February 2004)
John Maynard Smith (New Statesman 14 July 2003)
Review of Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of
Human Nature (London
Independent 14
September 2002)
Unity
is
Health:
An
Evolutionary
Left
(author's version of 'An
Evolutionary Left', Prospect
October 2001)
Market Eugenics (Prospect May 2000)
Handaxes: Products
of Sexual Selection? Marek Kohn & Steven Mithen (Antiquity
73, 1999)
Views for the Left - Peter Singer (London Independent on Sunday 24 May 1998)
Cinderella Revisited - Martin Daly and Margo Wilson (London Independent on Sunday 24 November 1996)
Drive an Escort, not a Ferrari, and be happy - Robert Frank (London Independent on Sunday 16 June 1996)
Review of Jan Karski's Story of a Secret State (Independent 13 May 2011)
Work, save, go . . . or stay?: Poles in Britain (New Statesman 11 October 2007)
How
Britain
can
help
Poles (newstatesman.com, 5 June 2008
A
Very
Modern
Migration: Poles in Britain (Catalyst
March 2007)
Review
of James Hopkin's Winter
Under Water (London Independent 24 February 2007)
Ideas: Enemies of the
People: on populism (New
Statesman 28 August 2006)
Poland's
Beacon
for
Europe (openDemocracy 25 October 2005)
Ideas:
Colour Shift: on race and science (New
Statesman 12 June 2006)
Review
of Joel N. Shurkin's Broken Genius:
The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
(New Statesman 3 July 2006)
This
Racist
Undercurrent
in
the
Tide
of
Genetic
Research (London Guardian 17 January 2006)
Genes and
the Nation State (Independent
on Sunday London section 16 March
2003)
So What Tribe Do You Belong To? (New Statesman 30 July 2001)
Health and inequality
Unknown Knowns: The Relationship between Inequality and Health (conference paper, September 2006)
Ideas: From
Top to
Bottom : on equality (New
Statesman 10 July 2006)
Review of Richard Wilkinson's The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier (Prospect September 2005)
Why an Unequal Society is an
Unhealthy Society (New Statesman
26 July 2004)
Review of Michael Marmot's Status Syndrome (London Independent, 18 June 2004)
Local interest
Down Town (The Brighton Moment)
Can We Rise Above a Warming
Planet? Climate Change, Democracy and Human Nature: lecture,
October 2010.
Believing
in
Change:
Darwin,
Lincoln,
Obama: lecture, Royal Society of
Edinburgh, 13 November 2009.
Between
Apes
and
Angels:
Representing
the
Darker
Implications
of
Darwinism:
video podcast for Endless Forms: Darwin and the Visual Arts,
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Thinking
Allowed, British society and climate change (second item) presented
by Laurie
Taylor,
BBC Radio 4.
Thinking
Allowed, 'Cocaine Girls in the West End', presented by Laurie
Taylor,
BBC Radio 4.
Thinking
Allowed, on Trust, with Onora O'Neill; presented by Laurie Taylor,
BBC Radio 4.
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