Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal’s remains and began to analyze its genome. Related Story Pop Mech Explains the UniverseAs such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings under the mountain and the last of its lineage,” Slimak told the website IFLScience. Related Story Solving the Mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism“It turns out that what I proposed 20 years ago was predictive,” Slimak told the publication Live Science.