NOVA

Season 40, Episode 7

Episode Title: Decoding Neanderthals

Air Date: 2013-01-09

Overview:

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.