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What Happened To The Neandertals?

What Happened To The Neandertals?

Update: 2022-07-25

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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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ncooty

Sorry, I can't listen to second-person historical present tense. It's just too childish.

Aug 4th

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What Happened To The Neandertals?

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