NOVA. Decoding neanderthals / directed by Nick Clarke Powell.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Powell, Nick Clarke, director.

Arrow International Media, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genomics.

Human beings.

Neanderthals.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 min.)

Place of Publication:

Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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 hundred of thousands of years. So what happened when the first modern humans encountered the Neanderthals? Did we 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.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed May 22, 2015).

OCLC:

910680463

Publisher Number:

ASP2800456/marc