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NOVA: Decoding Neanderthals DVD

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Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans - people physically identical to us today - left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age. But when they arrived, they were not alone: the stocky, powerfully built Neanderthals had already been living there for hundreds of thousands of years. ... More
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Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans - people physically identical to us today - left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age. But when they arrived, they were not alone: the stocky, powerfully built Neanderthals had already been living there for hundreds of thousands of years. So what happened when the first modern humans encountered the Neanderthals? Did they make love or war? That question has tantalized generations of scholars and seized the popular imagination. Then, in 2010, a team led by geneticist Svante Paabo announced stunning news. Not only had they reconstructed much of the Neanderthal genome - an extraordinary technical feat that would have seemed impossible only a decade ago - but their analysis showed that ""we"" modern humans had interbred with Neanderthals, leaving a small but consistent signature of Neanderthal genes behind in everyone outside Africa today. In ""Decoding Neanderthals,"" NOVA explores the implications of this exciting discovery. In the traditional view, Neanderthals differed from ""us"" in behavior and capabilities as well as anatomy. But were they really mentally inferior, as inexpressive and clumsy as the cartoon caveman they inspired? NOVA explores a range of intriguing new evidence for Neanderthal self-expression and language, all pointing to the fact that we may have seriously underestimated our mysterious, long-vanished human cousins.

Producer: Ben Harding, Johanna Woolford Gibbon, Chris Schmidt, Julia Cort
Executive Producer: Alison Turner, Tom Brisley, Paula S. Apsell
Production Company: WGBH; Arrow International Media Limited
Production Year: 2013
Copyright Year: 2013
Director: Nick Clarke Powell
Narrator: Corey Johnson
Discs: 1
Subtitles: Y
Subtitle Language: English (SDH)
Audio Format: Stereo
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 Widescreen

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Lavonne
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5.0 star rating
12/06/22
Ancient history gets real
Review by Lavonne on 12/06/22 review stating Ancient history gets real
Decoding Neanderthals is smartly scripted and beautifully presented.
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Gay
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5.0 star rating
12/19/21
So well written and fascinating
Review by Gay on 12/19/21 review stating So well written and fascinating
So well written and fascinating

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Ancient history gets real
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Decoding Neanderthals is smartly scripted and beautifully presented.

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