Human: Neanderthal Encounters Preview
Season 52
Episode 14
About the Episode
For 400,000 years, Neanderthals thrived across frigid, Ice Age Europe. What happened when Homo sapiens arrived, and how did these encounters change our species – including our DNA – in ways still with us today?
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