How Salman Rushdie changed my life
Introduction to From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy
(Atlantic, 2009)

Race, Science and James Watson
Foreword to Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate
(Oneworld, 2009)

Humans and other animals
in Jonathan Derbyshire (ed),
1000 Books to change your life
(Time Out, 2007)

What science can and cannot tell us about human nature
In Robin Headlam Wells & JohnJoe McGadden (eds) Human Nature: Fact and Fiction (Continuum, 2006)

Making a difference: culture, race and social policy
Patterns of Prejudice, 39 (December 2005)

Human nature, human differences and the human subject
Paper presented to the Society for the Study of Human Biology
Symposium on 'The Ethics of Human Biology: Difference, Diversity and Deviance'
Institute of Education, London, 20-22 September 2002

In defence of human agency
Paper presented to the Engelsberg Seminar on
'Consciousness, Genetics and Society'
Avesta, Sweden, 14-16 June 2002

Flexibility, plasticity and agency
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Flexibility
University of Oslo, 15-17 March 2002

The rise and fall of Unesco Man
Paper presented to the History and Human Nature Seminar,
Institute of Historical Research, November 2000

Race, pluralism and the meaning of difference
New Formations, 33 (Spring 1998)