Press
Press
We recently won a NERC grant to study dog dometication. News of this success was broadcast on several live radio interviews including Good Morning Scotland, the Today Programme, and 5Live. In addition, the telegraph reported the story here. - Feb 11, 2013
Greger was quoted in a recent article (Search for Wild Chicken.pdf) in Science about the state of play in chicken domestication research - Nov. 23, 2012.
Greger appread in an Academic Minute speaking about dog domestication on Sept. 12th, 2012.
Press about arctic fox Proceedings of the Royal Society B paper in the Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and Sunderland Echo.
Press about dog domestication PNAS paper in New York Times, Daily Mail, and BBC.
Article about Greger’s presentation at the SAA conference in Memphis in April 2012
Commercial Appeal - April 21, 2012
Tame Theory: Did Bonobos Domesticate Themselves?
Scientific American - Jan 25, 2012
Campus round-up
Times Higher Education - Dec 8, 2011
New Data Fuel Dogfight Over the Origins of Man's Best Friend
Greger appears in a 40 minute short film on the DVD of the Pearl Jam 20 documentary directed by Cameron Crowe released on October 25th 2011. The film is based on a 2008 article Greger wrote that appeared online. A clip of the DVD extra is on Youtube and a PDF of the article is here.
Greger was quoted in a comprehensive article about domestication.
National Geographic - March 2011
Greger was quoted in a Christmas related article about domestic animals in the stable.
New Scientist - 20 Dec 2010
Greger appeared on a documentary about a boat trip in the Pacific.
ZDF - German television - Aired Sept. 5, 2010
Greger was featured in the Spring 2010 issue of EMBO Encounters magazine discussing his experiences with television.
Greger was featured on a recent edition of the BBC2 program Horizon entitled:
BBC2 - Aired 6 Jan 2010
Supersized lions roamed Britain
BBC - 1 April 2009
Colourful pigs evolved through farming, not nature
NewScientist - 16 Jan 2009
What links Paris Hilton and Ancient Mesopotamians?
Journal Live - 16 Jan 2009
Chicken Bone Spurs Debate Over Americas' First Visitors
National Geographic - 28 July 2008
Tower's royal lions 'from Africa'
BBC - 25 March 2008
Darwin was wrong about (chicken) evolution
Telegraph - 29 Feb 2008
Critically endangered Pygmy Hog upgraded as unique evolutionary line.
Wildlife Extra - 15 Nov 2007
Pig DNA reveals farming history
BBC - 4 Sept 2007
Los Angeles Times - 4 Sept 2007
Pigs clue to early human colonies
BBC - 13 March 2007
Revealed: the feline family ties that bind all cats
Independent - 9 August 2005
Seven times lucky for pig tamers
NewScientist - 11 March 2005
Pigs domesticated ‘many times’
BBC - 11 March 2005