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31 March 2016
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12 April 2018

Humans may have occupied Indonesian site earlier than previously thought

Renewed excavations at a limestone rock-shelter inhabited by ‘Ice Age’ hunter-gatherers on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have revealed new evidence for earlier human occupation.

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1 November 2016
Dr Adam Brumm

Fellowship sets Griffith researcher on new hunt for the dawn of ‘hobbits’

Griffith University researcher Associate Professor Adam Brumm’s quest to find the origins of Homo floresiensis, the enigmatic ‘hobbits’ of Flores, Indonesia, has been given a significant boost through a prestigious Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council.

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9 June 2016
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22 December 2016
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Griffith University’s research success in 2016

Griffith University has developed the first needle-free vaccine for Strep A with the potential to help millions from suffering, uncovered the history of Aboriginal Australians in a world first genomic study and celebrated a scientist being named 2017 Queensland Australian of the Year — all in one short year.

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7 August 2024
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19 December 2019
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14 March 2018

How humans won the race – evolutionary evidence at World Science Festival

If the human race had run differently, modern man might have descended from Neanderthals, or some other species of ancient...

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8 June 2017

Dating expert ages oldest modern human

A Griffith University geochronologist’s state-of-the-art dating methods push back the origins of our species by an unprecedented 100,000 years, uncovering...

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11 May 2017

Griffith researchers date South Africa’s peculiar Homo naledi fossils

Scientists from Griffith’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution(ARCHE) have helped discoverHomo naledi’s surprisingly young age,opening up more questions on...

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