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Cave discovery may explain why Neanderthals disappeared

Summary by East Idaho News

Neanderthal man reconstruction in Natural History Museum, London. | Courtesy Werner Ustorf (CNN) — When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was immediately obvious that they belonged to a Neanderthal, the first intact remains of the ancient species to be discovered in that country since 1979. However, the once-in-a-lifetime find, nicknamed Thorin after a character in “The Hobb…

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