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Australian university whose research arm, ARCHE, studies human evolution, ancient DNA, and archaeology across the Asia-Pacific region.
Griffith University interviewed 22 cancer survivors, clinicians and employers and found fatigue the biggest physical barrier to returning to work. The interviews show where support breaks down between employers, insurers and oncologists, though not how common each problem is.
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A Griffith University team found the alkaloid arecoline in two sets of grooved prehistoric teeth from Sulawesi and showed that sucking a whole betel nut releases enough of it to act on human receptors, from a sample of two people.
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Griffith University researchers have published the first documented case of a humpback whale attending her dead newborn. It is one opportunistic sighting, and it is a record of what the species does; what the mother felt stays an open question.
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Newborn humpbacks lack the blubber to float, so a stillborn calf sinks out of sight almost at once. None of the roughly 20 humpback births in the literature was a stillbirth until a Gold Coast crew put a camera in the water.
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The teeth came out of a rock shelter's bone sorting rather than a grave. That makes them the first tooth ornaments recorded outside a burial in northeastern Australia, and the site's surviving string suggests why.
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An endangered Australian fish turned up in six tropical watersheds far north of its recorded range. The species did not move north; the record of it was wrong, and a fire survey found out by accident.
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