DNA From a 42,000-Year-Old ‘Last Neanderthal’ Points to 50,000 Years of Isolation

Researchers led by Ludovic Slimak at the University of Toulouse sequenced DNA from a tooth belonging to Thorin, a Neanderthal found at Grotte Mandrin in France’s Rhône Valley and dated to about 42,000 years ago. The analysis, published in Cell Genomics, shows long-term inbreeding and no genetic mixing with modern humans, pointing to a population […]