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Season 52 · Episode 14
Human: Neanderthal Encounters
10.053mOctober 1, 2025
For 400,000 years, Neanderthals thrived across frigid, Ice Age Europe. What happened when Homo sapiens arrived, and how did these encounters change our species – including our DNA – in ways still with us today?
Episodes
- Episode 1What Are UFOs?
- Episode 2Extreme Airport Engineering
- Episode 3Dino Birds
- Episode 4Egypt's Tombs of Amun
- Episode 5Pompeii's Secret Underworld
- Episode 6Baltimore Bridge Collapse
- Episode 7Revolutionary War Weapons
- Episode 8Secrets of the Forest
- Episode 9Critical Condition: Health In Black America
- Episode 10Ultimate Crash Test: Countdown
- Episode 11Ultimate Crash Test: Impact
- Episode 12Human: Origins
- Episode 13Human: Journeys
- Episode 14Human: Neanderthal Encounters
- Episode 15Human: Into the Americas
- Episode 16Human: Building Empires
- Episode 17Ancient Desert Death Trap
- Episode 18Superfloods
- Episode 19Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build
- Episode 20Operation Space Station: Science and Survival