Vol. 108 No. 11/12 (2012)

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Published: 2012-10-25

Commentary

How much time does it take to supervise a PhD student?

Brenda Wingfield

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Obituary

Neville Alexander: Political philosopher (1936 - 2012)

Crain Soudien

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Leader

Changing of the guard at the Department of Science and Technology

Michael Cherry

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Book Reviews

80 Years after Taung: A review of African Genesis

Alan Morris

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A history of crime in southern Africa as revealed by bones

Steve Naidoo

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News and Views

The Reforestation of Africa?

Adam West, Guy Midgley, William Bond

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San origins and transition to the Later Stone Age: New research from Border Cave, South Africa

Peter Mitchell

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Challenges in invasive alien plant control in South Africa

Brian van Wilgen, Richard Cowling, Christo Marais, Karen Esler, Matthew McConnachie, Debbie Sharp

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Fynbos Proteaceae as model organisms for biodiversity research and conservation

Frank Schurr, Karen Esler, Jasper Slingsby, Nicky Allsopp

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Strategies to overcome poverty and inequality: Towards Carnegie III

Janet Cherry

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Research Articles

An assessment of zoological research collections in South Africa

Michelle Hamer

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Re-evaluating the NO2 hotspot over the South African Highveld

Alexandra Lourens, Timothy Butler, Johan Beukes, Pieter van Zyl, Steffen Beirle, Thomas Wagner, Klaus-Peter Heue, Jacobus Pienaar, Gerhardus Fourie, Mark Lawrence

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Shedding new light on an old mystery: Early photographs of the Taung Child

Goran Å trkalj, Katarzyna Kaszycka

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Semantic query in a relational database using a local ontology construction (Retracted)

Saeed Sedighi, Reza Javidan

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Processes for working-up an aqueous fluosilicic acid solution

Alpha Toure, Falilou Sambe, Démo Koita, Codou Diop, Oumar Sock

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Research Letters

Evidence of a therapsid scavenger in the Late Permian Karoo Basin, South Africa

Nicholas Fordyce, Roger Smith, Anusuya Chinsamy

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Review Articles

The impact of solar ultraviolet radiation on human health in sub-Saharan Africa

Caradee Wright, Mary Norval, Beverley Summers, Lester Davids, Gerrie Coetzee, Matthew Oriowo

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Review of NGO performance research published in academic journals between 1996 and 2008

Roselyn Kareithi, Crick Lund

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William John Burchell: The multi-skilled polymath

Roger Stewart, Brian Warner

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Next generation shotgun sequencing and the challenges of de novo genome assembly

Stephen Schlebusch, Nicola Illing

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Research Briefs

Research briefs

Michael Cherry

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Profiles

Kelly Chibale: An advocate of innovation

Jenny Leonard

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