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Welcome to the Science Podcast for July 7, 2017. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,

science news editor Tim Appenzeller talks about the role of artificial intelligence in the scientific endeavor, from pipetting to particle physics.

And David Grimm is here with a roundup of stories from the Daily News site.

Now we have David Grimm, editor for our Daily News site.

He's here to talk about some recent online stories.

First up, we have a story on the twisty human family tree.

Which came first?

Modern humans or Neanderthals?

This is a lot trickier of a question to answer these days than it was about 50 years ago

when all we had to go by was bones.

With ancient DNA on the scene, we're starting to learn about all the drama

amongst her forebears. What's the latest twist, Dave? Well, we've known that humans were mating

with Neanderthals and potentially many occasions, but this is the oldest evidence for such a hookup. This is something that could have

happened potentially more than 220,000 years ago. And they found a bone in a cave in 1937, and just

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