Over the past nine years, researchers have been excavating the remains of a Neanderthal from an archaeological site called Grotte Mandrin in southern France. They nicknamed him “Thorin” after a dwarf ...

A recently published scientific paper has confirmed the close genetic links between a Neanderthal population in the Rhone ...

"Thorin", one of the last Neanderthals to walk the planet, was part of a previously unknown lineage that was isolated for ...

Following from these results, the European TV Culture Channel, ARTE, has produced a documentary on Thorin and its discovery. Based in Strasbourg, ARTE has a monthly viewing of around 6.6 million. The ...

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Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed “Thorin,” found by Slimak managed to stay totally isolated from groups of other ...

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Genes exist in most cells. Inside a cell is a long strand of the chemical DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). A DNA sequence is a specific lineup of chemical base pairs along its strand. The part of DNA ...