Sharing the name of a legendary dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel "The Hobbit," a Neanderthal now known as ...

An estimated 50 night parrots (Pezoporus occidentalis) survive in a newly discovered colony in a remote area of Western ...

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may ...

Researchers uncover the DNA of Neanderthal "Thorin," revealing genetic isolation and inbreeding within his group.

Inbreeding depression, the reduced fitness of inbred relative to outbred individuals was described more than two centuries ago, long before the development of population genetics. Its impact is ...

salicaria begins to grow in southern Ontario, we assigned three self- and three cross-fertilized progeny (hereafter S and X, respectively) from the 29 families which produced at least six offspring ...

Compared with previously published late European Neanderthal genomes, Thorin was found to have high genetic homozygosity — identical gene variants often indicative of recent inbreeding — and no ...