Decoding Neanderthals
Decoding Neanderthals

NOVA — S40E7

Episode: Decoding Neanderthals

Air Date: 2013-01-09

Runtime: 55 min

Overview

Examining evidence about Neanderthals that sheds light on the hominids, which died off some 30,000 years ago. Included: geneticist Svante Pääbo's 2010 reconstruction of the Neanderthal genome, which posits that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred at some point in the distant past.

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