“It was like encountering the last Neanderthal while walking in the hills” An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding light on the species’ demise. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak takes Alison George inside the cave where they lived and died LUDOVIC SLIMAK has spent decades in the caves once inhabited by Neanderthals, uncovering their worlds. In the process, he has transformed what we know about the very last Neanderthals to have existed, thanks to remarkable discoveries at a small cave in France called Grotte Mandrin. …