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42,000-Year-Old ‘Thorin’ Reveals a Hidden Neanderthal Lineage

Could the last chapters of Neanderthal history be far more complicated than anyone thought? A newly sequenced genome from a ...

Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...