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Discover a type of ancient human whose genes helped us face down extinction.

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Examine research that suggests we humans are patchwork species of hybrids.

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Find out why Neanderthals, with whom early humans in Europe interbred, went extinct.

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Learn how Homo sapiens, new in Australia and truly alone, managed to survive and flourish.

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Learn why a discovery in Mexico may rewrite the story of early migration to the Americas.

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See how the mixing of prehistoric human genes led the way for our species to thrive.

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Eva of Naharon was discovered in 2008 on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

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200,000 years ago, a new species appeared on the African landscape.

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Witness the dangers of genetic isolation exemplified by the duck-billed platypus.

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The Clovis point is an amazing piece of Stone Age technology used to hunt animals.

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Scientists demonstrate the challenges in reconstructing DNA from a Neanderthal bone.

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Archaeologists uncover a modern human in a European cave.