Context: there are many things wrong with academic publishing (the financial winners and losers from the unpaid burden of peer review, for a start). But here’s a simple one: the house style for referencing for journals is utterly inconsistent, user unfriendly and a staggering waste of time. It would make life easier for everyone if… Read More

I’ve a new book coming out in June 2019, published by The Bodley Head as well as Vintage, all under the PenguinRandomHouse stable. It’s just under a 100k words long (including references). It’s a big story: taking us on our human walking story in evolutionary deep time, through the development of walking, the mechanics of… Read More