Geoff Brumfiel
‘So much more than cave-dwelling thugs with clubs’: Neanderthal DNA gives us a look into ancient family life
One of the things that makes us special as a species is our ability to form communities, but we humans ...
Infographic: Trump-voting Republican counties suffered more than twice the death rate from COVID than Democratic ones
Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the ...
Vaccine mandate opponents find a home in the Republican party
"The truth is, I'm still a registered Democrat," says Del Bigtree, a well-known anti-vaccine activist. Even before COVID-19, he wrote ...
How women turned the tide against smallpox in the 1700s
Smallpox was far deadlier than the coronavirus the world is currently battling. Fatality rates were as high as 30%, and ...