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NOVA · S40E07

Decoding Neanderthals

Still from NOVA S40E07

Summary

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.

Guest stars

  • Corey Johnson as Narrator