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Why Did Neanderthals Have Asymmetrical Arms? | Bbc Timestamp

Why did Neanderthals have asymmetrical arms?

Anatomist professor Alice Roberts and biologist Dr George McGavin join together with a team of international experts at the Prehistoric Autopsy HQ in Glasgow to reveal the latest research that is casting a new light on Neanderthals, how they might have lived and what we might have inherited from them.

This clip is from Prehistoric Autopsy (2012).

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