I wrote a feature for the Mail on Sunday about human evolution, including the latest findings about the big headed Chinese/Maguire skull from last week, and general debunking of some of the simplistic old narrative of humankind's journey. 
The Mail's outlook is generally far from aligned with my own, but I saw this as an opportunity to do some science communication to a large new audience. It was a pleasure working with the editor.
I did request that we use humankind - as we have been in science for many years now - and not mankind, but they didn't change that, which I regret.
So, far from perfect, but I think overall, the reach of this paper to do some up-to-date communication of the evolution of humankind - including the inherent messiness of our tree (which isn't a tree) and to debunk the classic and wrong imagery of evolution - is a net positive.
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