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Decoding Neanderthals
NOVA — Season 40
S40E072013-01-0955m

Decoding Neanderthals

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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S40E07 — Decoding Neanderthals

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