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and Tom Gittin observed that the model had dropped from view, and attributed political motives to its disappearance off the popular and academic radar. McNiven and
Russell argue that the trihybrid theory was discarded as the natural outcome of advances in archaeological work on the populating of the
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to buttress his conjecture. This trihybrid model was resurrected and espoused by
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from 1948 until his retirement in 1974, continuing his research, and writing many articles and a widely used textbook on human evolution. His lifework was summarised in a monograph published in 1993 by
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Birdsell, Joseph, B. (1986). "Some predictions for the
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and Joseph B. Birdsell, "Results of the
Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939: Tasmanoid Tribes in North Queensland", Records of the
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Australian Aborigines", Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania, 2 (2), 1967, pp 100–55;
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