What Happened To The Neandertals?
No one looks in the mirror today and sees a Neandertal looking back – and it’s pretty uncontroversial for us to say that Neandertals are extinct. But are they really gone?
Eons: Surviving Deep Time · PBS
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Show Notes
Studies have found Neandertal DNA in people living in - and descended from - populations in Europe, Asia, and, most recently, Africa. So, in a way, these ancient relatives of ours are somehow both here and gone. We know we shared the planet with them in the not-so-distant past… But what happened to them?
Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time is produced by Complexly for PBS.
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