NOVA

“Decoding Neanderthals”

In 2010, a team led by geneticist Svante Paabo announced they reconstructed much of the Neanderthal genome, and the analysis showed that modern humans and Neanderthals had interbred, leaving a small signature of Neanderthal genes in everyone outside Africa today. NOVA explores the implications of this exciting discovery, and examines a range of new evidence for Neanderthal self-expression and language, suggesting that we may have underestimated our long-vanished cousins.

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