For decades, we’ve thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity.
But as we are fast learning, the truth about who they were and how they died is far more intriguing.
In part 1 we visit Gibraltar and ask, did we really drive our human relatives extinct?
For the full playlist visit BBC Reel: https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/the-last-neanderthal?
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