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Q&A: How did we outpace the big bang?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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Neanderthals and Covid

A recent paper came out suggesting a person's risk from Covid could be down to Neanderthal genes that they carry tell us more. Homo sapiens and Neanderthals perhaps had a common ancestor between 500,000 and 750,000 years ago. Evidence has been found everywhere from Gibraltar all the way to the Altai Mountains right in Siberia.

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