How sex with Neanderthals changed us forever – BBC World Service

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species.

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According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to breed. But they did. We know this because many of us have some Neanderthal DNA.

BBC World Service explains what we gained when Homo sapiens mated with Homo neanderthalensis many thousands of years ago.

00:00 Introduction
00:38 Neanderthals and Home sapiens
01:01 Species deriving from Africa, Europe and Asia
02:07 Comparing Neanderthal genome with ours
02:39 Europe’s oldest sapiens
02:57 How we inherited Neanderthal genes
03:21 How Neanderthal genes contributed to our evolution
04:29 What was sex like between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens?

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