W2 Professor and Lise Meitner Group Leader of the Pan African
Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Media

My work has been featured in over 1000 news articles around the world. Below is a small selection of links such media features, including scicomm articles that I have written:

Lizzie Wade. 2025. Mediterranean hunter-gatherers voyaged across the open sea 8500 years ago. Science AAS. 

Andrew Paul. 2025. Cave discovery could rewrite 1,000 years of Mediterranean history. Popular Science Magazine.

Bruce Bower. 2025. Stone Age hunter-gatherers may have been surprisingly skilled seafarers. Science News.

Sarah Knapton. 2025. Hunter-gatherers made long distance-crossings of Mediterranean in boats. The Telegraph.

Die Welt. 2025. How the risky crossing to Malta was achieved 8500 years ago – by dugout canoe. Die Welt (Deutsch)

Mark Laurence Zammit. 2025. Times Talk: The first Maltese people in history, unearthed. Times of Malta.

Carl Zimmer. 2025. Early Humans Thrived in Rainforests. New York Times.

Michael Marshall. 2025. Humans were living in tropical forests surprisingly early. New Scientist.

Ian Randall. 2025. 150,000 year old rainforest discovery shakes up human evolution. Newsweek.

Bruce Bower, 2025. Humans moved into West African rainforests at least 150,000 years ago. Science News.

Lauren Fuge. 2021. Young tools rewrite old history. Cosmos Magazine.

Michael Marshall. 2021. The other cradle of humanity: How Arabia shaped human evolution. New Scientist (Cover Feature).

Eleanor Scerri. 2021. Archaeology in West Africa could rewrite the textbooks on human evolution. The Conversation.

Science Daily. 2021. Newly discovered African 'climate seesaw' drove human evolution.

Robin McKie. 2020. The search for Eden: in pursuit of humanity’s origins. The Guardian.

Lorraine Boissoneault. 2019. Ancient Monkey Bone Tools Shake Up the Narrative of Early Human Migration to the Rain Forest. Smithsonian Magazine.

Katarina Zimmer. 2020. Genetics Steps In to Help Tell the Story of Human Origins. The Scientist. 

Darren Curnoe. 2018. Rethinking Homo sapiens? The story of our origins gets dizzyingly complicated. The Conversation.

Aristos Georgiou. 2018. Humans Did Not Evolve From a Single Population in Africa, Researchers Say. Newsweek.

Ephrat Livni. 2018. How to come up with better ideas, according to scientists who developed a new theory of human evolution. Quarz.

Eleanor Scerri. 2018. Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse. New Scientist.

Eleanor Scerri. 2018. Human evolution: secrets of early ancestors could be unlocked by African rainforests. The Conversation.

Kate Wong. 2018. Why Is Homo sapiens the Sole Surviving Member of the Human Family? Scientific American.

Andrew Lawler. 2014. In search of a Green Arabia. Science. 

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