Please Stop Using 'Neanderthal' As An Insult, Say Neanderthal Experts
Like many scientists, Evelyn Jagoda, a PhD student in Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology Department, has a Google alert for her chief research interest. Unlike many scientists, every time she checks it, she braces for a barrage of insults. That’s because Jagoda studies Neanderthals—those evolutionarily close, culturally estranged cousins whose species designation English-speakers have co-opted as a slur.
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