Decoding Neanderthals

Jan 09, 2013 on PBS at 9:00 PM

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 interbre... (more)d at some point in the distant past.

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Corey Johnson