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NOVA: Decoding Neanderthals

Nova (2013)

Documentary | United States

Director: Nick Clarke Powell

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SEASON: 40

EPISODE: 7 - Decoding Neanderthals

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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.

RUNTIME: 55 min

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