For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in our deep past. The latest high resolution Neanderthal genome, combined ...

The more we learn about Neanderthals, the more we discover how smart they really were. It wasn't very long ago that the public and scientific perception of Homo neanderthalensis was unflattering, to ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...