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10 fascinating discoveries about Neanderthals in 2024, from 'Thorin' the last Neanderthal to an ancient glue factory

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Neanderthals lived in Europe , so they had to protect their bodies from frostbite and other cold-related problems.

A fragment of a Neanderthal child's ear bone suggests she had Down syndrome and that she was cared for by her community.

A Neanderthal "Thorin" DNA suggests that some groups may have been isolated for thousands of years before going extinct.

Male Neanderthal DNA seems to have vanished without a trace.

The H. sapiens genome does not have any Neanderthal Y chromosome DNA.

One intriguing possibility is that mating simply didn't work between Neanderthal males and H. Sapiens women.

The finding suggests that Neanderthals were absorbed into larger human groups.