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Were environmental or demographic factors the driving force behind Middle Stone Age innovations in southern Africa?

Jacobs, Zenobia; Roberts, Richard G. (Academy of Science for South Africa, 2009)

Past human responses to environmental changes have long interested archaeologists. During the last glacial cycle, southern Africa experienced marked climatic fluctuations, as recorded in ice-core records from West and East ...
Where are the major gaps in the reserve network for Africa's mammals?

Fjeldsa, Jon; Burgess, Neil D.; Blyth, Simon; De Klerk, Helen Margaret (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2004-01)

The establishment of protected areas for wildlife conservation in Africa was motivated by a number of different reasons (including hunting, recreation and wildlife conservation). The current reserve network provides good ...
Why cordylid lizards are black at the south-western tip of Africa

Janse van Rensburg, D. A.; Mouton, P. le F. N.; Van Niekerk, Adriaan (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009-03)

There is a high incidence of melanism among the cordylid lizards of Africa and it was suggested that melanism has a thermoregulatory function in these species. One prediction of the thermal melanism hypothesis would be ...