Ever since the Neandertal (Homo neanderthalensis) type fossil was discovered in the Neander Valley of Germany in 1856, the species has been variously portrayed as knuckle-dragging cavemen and ...

Neandertals, historically, have gotten a bad rap (which they do not deserve!). In her 2020 book, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art, Rebecca Wragg Sykes reflects on the Neandertal legacy, ...

I'm a pastor by vocation; my father was a teacher of the social sciences, a man of sociology, psychology, anthropology and paleontology. Occasionally I like to bait my metaphorical hook and fish in ...