Decoding Neanderthals Nova : Season 40 Episode 7
TV-PG PBS 1h 00m int(0)
Aired: January 9th, 2013 @ 9:00 PM EST on PBS
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.