NOVA S40E7 · Decoding Neanderthals

NOVA

Season 40 · Episode 7 · Decoding Neanderthals · 55 min

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.