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Media Release: Out of the pouch: Ancient DNA extracted from extinct giant kangaroos

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Environment Institute 2014 Highlights

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Vodcast: Survivors: the animals and plants that time has left behind. Richard Fortey

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Media Release: Climate change, not modern human activity responsible for Tassie Devil decline

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Environment Institute ARC Discovery and DECRA grant success

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7000 year old German farmer helps uncover genetic history of Europeans

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Internationally renowned Richard Fortey to give keynote lecture at Adelaide University

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From Neandertal history to Taiwan's pet bird market: Selected publications from the 2nd Quarter 2014

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Prof Alan Cooper awarded prestigious 2014 Australian Laureate Fellowship

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1)    Was each animal’s population genetically diverse before the time of extinction? (If each species was not very diverse, it suggests that whatever caused them to go extinct started happening before the big Pleistocene extinction date (approx. 10,000 years ago)).

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