The ancient hook-up that changed humanity

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KEY SOURCES:
A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5100745/

Identifying and Interpreting Apparent Neanderthal Ancestry in African Individuals
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32004458/

Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35138885/

FULL SOURCE LIST:
docs.google.com/document/d/1hL7KMBa2uNzTcYPIvdHbIf…

BOOKS!
“The Naked Neanderthal” by Ludovic Slimak
www.penguin.co.uk/books/454664/the-naked-neanderth…

“Who We Are and How We Got Here” by David Reich
reich.hms.harvard.edu/why-i-wrote-book

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Chapters:
00:00 intro
01:06 discovering Neanderthals
03:00 why it's not easy
04:35 extracting DNA
06:34 assembling the genome
08:00 proving they did it
09:57 the species problem
11:01 Neanderthal DNA in Africa
12:08 a new mystery
15:34 dating problems
16:36 fossilized smoke
18:34 conclusion
19:48 ground news