• A new method for reconstructing brain morphology: applying the brain-neurocranial spatial relationship in an extant lungfish to a fossil endocast 

  Clement, Alice M; Strand, R; Nysjo, J; Long, John A; Ahlberg, Per E (The Royal Society, 2016)

  Lungfish first appeared in the geological record over 410 million years ago and are the closest living group of fish to the tetrapods. Palaeoneurological investigations into the group show that unlike numerous other ...

• Terrestrial freshwater lenses in stable riverine settings: Occurrence and controlling factors 

  Werner, Adrian D; Laattoe, Tariq (American Geophysical Union, 2016-05-13)

  Rivers in arid and semiarid regions often traverse saline aquifers, creating buoyant freshwater lenses in the adjoining riparian and floodplain zones. The occurrence of freshwater lenses where the river is otherwise gaining ...

• Distributions of Virus-Like Particles and Prokaryotes within Microenvironments 

  Dann, Lisa M; Paterson, James; Newton, Kelly; Oliver, Rod L; Mitchell, James Gordon (Public Library of Science, 2016)

  Microbial interactions are important for ecosystem function, but occur at the microscale and so are difficult to observe. Previous studies in marine systems have shown significant shifts in microbial community abundance ...

• Osteology Supports a Stem-Galliform Affinity for the Giant Extinct Flightless Bird Sylviornis neocaledoniae (Sylviornithidae, Galloanseres) 

  Worthy, Trevor; Mitri, Miyess; Handley, Warren; Lee, Michael S Y; Anderson, Atholl; Sand, Christophe (Public Library of Science, 2016)

  The giant flightless bird Sylviornis neocaledoniae (Aves: Sylviornithidae) existed on La Grande Terre and Ile des Pins, New Caledonia, until the late Holocene when it went extinct shortly after human arrival on these ...

• Indigenous Sistergirls’ Experiences of Family and Community 

  Riggs, Damien Wayne; Toone, K (Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-09)

  While increasing attention has been paid to the experiences of Indigenous sistergirls over the past decade there still remains a dearth of empirical research on the experiences of this diverse population of Indigenous ...

• Exploring trans and gender diverse issues in primary education in South Australia 

  Bartholomaeus, Clare; Riggs, Damien Wayne; Andrew, Yarrow (Flinders University, 2016)

  Executive Summary An increasing number of young children identify with a gender that differs from that normatively expected of their natally-assigned sex (e.g. Smith & Matthews, 2015; Telfer, Tollit, & Feldman, 2015). Such ...

• Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution 

  Mitchell, Kieren J; Llamas, Bastien; Soubrier, Julien; Rawlence, Nicolas J; Worthy, Trevor; Wood, Jamie; Lee, Michael S Y; Cooper, Alan (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014-05-23)

  The evolution of the ratite birds has been widely attributed to vicariant speciation, driven by the Cretaceous breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. The early isolation of Africa and Madagascar implies that the ostrich ...

• Is the “Genyornis” egg of a mihirung or another extinct bird from the Australian dreamtime? 

  Grellet-Tinner, G; Spooner, N A; Worthy, Trevor (Elsevier, 2016-02-01)

  The iconic Australian Genyornis newtoni (Dromornithidae, Aves) is the sole Pleistocene member of an avian clade now hypothesized to be alternatively in Anseriformes or the sister group of crown Galloanseres. A distinctive ...

• Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves 

  Worthy, Trevor; Worthy, Jennifer P; Tennyson, Alan J D; Salisbury, Steven W; Hand, Suzanne J; Scofield, R Paul (Verlag Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 2013)

  Until now, kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) have had no pre-Quaternary fossil record to inform on the timing of their arrival in New Zealand or on their inter-ratite relationships. Here we describe two fossils in a new genus ...

• A Plains-wanderer (Pedionomidae) that did not wander plains: a new species from the Oligocene of South Australia 

  De Pietri, Vanessa L; Camens, Aaron; Worthy, Trevor (John Wiley & Sons, inc., 2014-11-03)

  The remarkable fauna of Australia evolved in isolation from other landmasses for millions of years, yet understanding the evolutionary history of endemic avian lineages on the continent is confounded by the ability of birds ...

• Wading a lost southern connection: Miocene fossils from New Zealand reveal a new lineage of shorebirds (Charadriiformes) linking Gondwanan avifaunas 

  De Pietri, Vanessa L; Scofield, R Paul; Tennyson, Alan J D; Hand, Suzanne J; Worthy, Trevor (Taylor & Francis, 2015-10-13)

  An endemic and previously unknown lineage of shorebirds (Charadriiformes: Scolopaci) is described from early Miocene (19 16 Ma) deposits of New Zealand. Hakawai melvillei gen. et sp. nov. represents the first pre-Quaternary ...

• Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand. 

  Worthy, Trevor; Tennyson, Alan J D; Scofield, R Paul; Hand, Suzanne J (Taylor & Francis, 2013)

  The first pre-Quaternary anurans from New Zealand are reported from the Early Miocene (19–16 Ma) St Bathans Fauna based on 10 fossil bones. Four bones representing two new species differing in size are described in Leiopelma: ...

• A bittern (Aves: Ardeidae) from the Early Miocene of New Zealand 

  Worthy, Trevor; Worthy, Jennifer P; Tennyson, Alan J D; Scofield, R Paul (Springer Verlag, 2013)

• Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita Site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, Including a New Genus and Species of Megapode 

  Worthy, Trevor; Hawkins, Stuart; Bedford, Stuart; Spriggs, Matthew (University of Hawaii Press, 2015)

  The avifauna of the Teouma archaeological site on Efate in Vanuatu is described. It derives from the Lapita levels (3,000 – 2,800 ybp) and immedi-ately overlying middens extending to ∼2,500 ybp. A total of 30 bird ...

• Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand 

  Hand, S; Worthy, Trevor; Archer, M; Worthy, J; Tennyson, A; Schofield, R (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2013)

• Miocene Fossils Reveal Ancient Roots for New Zealand’s Endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and Its Rainforest Habitat 

  Hand, Suzanne J; Lee, Daphne E; Worthy, Trevor; Archer, Michael; Worthy, Jennifer P; Tennyson, Alan J D; Salisbury, Steven W; Scofield, R Paul; Mildenhall, Dallas C; Kennedy, Elizabeth M; Lindqvist, Jon K (Public Library of Science, 2015)

  The New Zealand endemic bat family Mystacinidae comprises just two Recent species referred to a single genus, Mystacina. The family was once more diverse and widespread, with an additional six extinct taxa recorded from ...

• Numbers, schnumbers: total cultural value and talking about everything that we do, even culture 

  Meyrick, Julian (Emerald Publishing Group, 2015-06-15)

  The purpose of this paper is to argue for the importance of separating out three key dimensions of culture’s value – definition, measurement and cultural reporting. This has implications for the balance between quantitative ...

• The logic of culture: the fate of alternative theatre in the postwhitlam period 

  Meyrick, Julian (University of Queensland, Department of English, 2014-04)

  This article presents a general explanation of government subsidy to the arts, drawing on the historical experience of Australian alternative theatre from the late 1970s to the early 1990s - a period of expansion for the ...

• The mocking of the modern mind: culture and cartooning in the age of Je suis Charlie Hebdo 

  Meyrick, Julian; Maltby, Richard George; Phiddian, Robert Andrew (Australian Book Review, Inc., 2015-04)

  Eminent psychologist Steven Pinker once described art as ‘cheesecake for the mind’. Many people think of culture as a luxury good, high up – and therefore low down – on Mazslow’s hierarchy of needs in comparison with basic ...

• Cultural value vs culture's value 

  Meyrick, Julian; Barnett, Tully Sarah (Emerald Publishing Group, 2015)

  The problem of culture’s value is assayed by David Throsby in his seminal book Economics and Culture when he puts forward the proposition “the economic impulse is individualistic, the cultural impulse is collective”. This ...

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