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12 - Cornelia-Uitzoek: Paleoecology, Archeology, and Geochronology
- from Part II - Southern Africa
- Edited by Sally C. Reynolds, Bournemouth University, René Bobe, University of Oxford
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- African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
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- 19 May 2022
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- 09 June 2022, pp 120-134
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The fossil locality is situated on the farm “Uitzoek” in the Schoonspruit valley, near the town of Cornelia in the northeastern Free State Province of South Africa (Figures 12.1 and 12.2). The site consists of fossil-bearing valley-fill deposits within the Schoonspruit Valley. The hominin fossil and bulk of the fossil and artifact-bearing deposits of the site are dated by paleomagnetism to between 1.07 and 1.01 Ma (ages updated with respect to reversal ages of Singer, 2014), with other fossil and archeological deposits occurring to less than 780 ka (Brink et al., 2012). In older literature the Uitzoek site is referred to only as “Cornelia,” but it is in reality one of several fossil vertebrate and Stone Age archeological sites in the Schoonspruit valley and in the nearby Venterspruit drainage. These drainages fall within the northeastern part of the Vaal River catchment and flow northward into the Vaal River (Tooth et al., 2004; Figure 12.1).
14 - Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province: An Early–Middle Pleistocene Paleoenvironmental Sequence for the Interior of South Africa
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- Edited by Sally C. Reynolds, Bournemouth University, René Bobe, University of Oxford
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- African Paleoecology and Human Evolution
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- 09 June 2022, pp 142-160
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Localities in the interior of South Africa, such as Taung and Vaal River sites, were intensively researched after hominins were discovered (Péringuey, 1911; Dart, 1925a; Goodwin, 1928), but then neglected for the fossil-rich, dolomitic breccia sites in Gauteng Province (e.g., Cooke, 1963, 1967; Vrba, 1976; Brain, 1981, Brain and Sillen, 1988; Bamford, 1999; Pickering and Kramers, 2010; Herries and Shaw, 2011; Reynolds et al., 2011; Lee-Thorp and Sponheimer, 2013). Recently, knowledge of the interior region has increased, following excavations at Florisbad (Brink, 1988; Kuman et al., 1999; Toffolo et al., 2015), Taung, including Equus Cave (Scott, 1987; Klein et al., 1991; McKee and Tobias, 1994; Lee-Thorp and Beaumont, 1995; Johnson et al., 1997; Hopley et al., 2013; McKee, 2016), Canteen Kopje (Beaumont, 1990, 2004; McNabb and Beaumont, 2011; Smith et al., 2012; Lotter et al., 2016), Pniel (Beaumont, 1990; Kunneriath and Gaillard, 2010; Hutson, 2018), Erfkroon (Churchill et al., 2000a; Brink et al., 2015a), Bundu Farm (Kiberd, 2006; Hutson, 2018), Cornelia (Brink et al., 2012; Toffolo et al., 2019) and the Kathu Complex (Porat et al., 2010; Wilkins and Chazan, 2012; Wilkins et al., 2012; Walker et al., 2014; Lukich et al., 2019, 2020).
Fossil oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from the Florisbad Quaternary deposits, South Africa
- Louise Coetzee, James S Brink
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- Quaternary Research / Volume 59 / Issue 2 / March 2003
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- 20 January 2017, pp. 246-254
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In a pioneer application of acarology to Quaternary fossil-bearing sediments in southern Africa, the oribatid composition in the Florisbad Quaternary sediments was determined and compared to the currently known distribution of those species. Nine species of oribatid mites were recorded in the Holocene aeolian deposits of the third test pit, three species from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) horizon sediments of the third test pit, and thirteen species from the Holocene spring sediments. The Florisbad results indicate a better agreement between the oribatid fauna of the last interglacial MSA horizon of the third test pit and the organic-rich mid-Holocene deposits near the spring than between either of these and early- and late-Holocene aeolian sediments of the third test pit, suggesting some similarity in microsedimentary environments. The majority of the species recorded in the sediments are parthenogenetic and can be regarded as pioneer species.
18 - Faunal evidence for mid- and late Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa
- Edited by Jasper Knight, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Stefan W. Grab, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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- Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa
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Abstract Southern Africa is differentiated from other centres of aridity in Africa by the presence of an extended island of elevated, essentially treeless habitat in the central interior, known as the Highveld and the Karoo. This area coincides botanically with the Nama-Karoo and the Grassland Biomes. The large geographic extent of this habitat is unique to southern Africa, since it has no exact equivalent in modern-day east or north Africa. This uniqueness is reflected in the large herbivores of the central interior, the grazers and mixed feeders adapted to permanently available open habitat, which defines the endemic faunal character of the subregion. This contribution presents some of the faunal evidence for the appearance of permanently open habitat in central southern Africa, a process that formed part of a longer-term trend of faunal adaptation to aridification and global cooling that was initiated within the last 1 Ma, in a time known as the Cornelian Land Mammal Age (LMA). A secondary and overlapping theme deals with the appearance of lakes and wetlands on a subregional scale during the Florisian LMA, which lasted from c. 0.6 Ma to the end of the Pleistocene/early Holocene. The end of the Florisian LMA coincided with the regional extinction of wetland faunas in the interior and with the extinction of specialised grazing ungulates over the entire subregion, leading into the semi-arid conditions seen in the larger part of modern-day southern Africa.
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- By Mitchell Aboulafia, Frederick Adams, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert M. Adams, Laird Addis, James W. Allard, David Allison, William P. Alston, Karl Ameriks, C. Anthony Anderson, David Leech Anderson, Lanier Anderson, Roger Ariew, David Armstrong, Denis G. Arnold, E. J. Ashworth, Margaret Atherton, Robin Attfield, Bruce Aune, Edward Wilson Averill, Jody Azzouni, Kent Bach, Andrew Bailey, Lynne Rudder Baker, Thomas R. Baldwin, Jon Barwise, George Bealer, William Bechtel, Lawrence C. Becker, Mark A. Bedau, Ernst Behler, José A. Benardete, Ermanno Bencivenga, Jan Berg, Michael Bergmann, Robert L. Bernasconi, Sven Bernecker, Bernard Berofsky, Rod Bertolet, Charles J. Beyer, Christian Beyer, Joseph Bien, Joseph Bien, Peg Birmingham, Ivan Boh, James Bohman, Daniel Bonevac, Laurence BonJour, William J. Bouwsma, Raymond D. Bradley, Myles Brand, Richard B. Brandt, Michael E. Bratman, Stephen E. Braude, Daniel Breazeale, Angela Breitenbach, Jason Bridges, David O. Brink, Gordon G. Brittan, Justin Broackes, Dan W. Brock, Aaron Bronfman, Jeffrey E. Brower, Bartosz Brozek, Anthony Brueckner, Jeffrey Bub, Lara Buchak, Otavio Bueno, Ann E. Bumpus, Robert W. Burch, John Burgess, Arthur W. Burks, Panayot Butchvarov, Robert E. Butts, Marina Bykova, Patrick Byrne, David Carr, Noël Carroll, Edward S. Casey, Victor Caston, Victor Caston, Albert Casullo, Robert L. Causey, Alan K. L. Chan, Ruth Chang, Deen K. Chatterjee, Andrew Chignell, Roderick M. Chisholm, Kelly J. Clark, E. J. Coffman, Robin Collins, Brian P. Copenhaver, John Corcoran, John Cottingham, Roger Crisp, Frederick J. Crosson, Antonio S. Cua, Phillip D. Cummins, Martin Curd, Adam Cureton, Andrew Cutrofello, Stephen Darwall, Paul Sheldon Davies, Wayne A. Davis, Timothy Joseph Day, Claudio de Almeida, Mario De Caro, Mario De Caro, John Deigh, C. F. Delaney, Daniel C. Dennett, Michael R. DePaul, Michael Detlefsen, Daniel Trent Devereux, Philip E. Devine, John M. Dillon, Martin C. Dillon, Robert DiSalle, Mary Domski, Alan Donagan, Paul Draper, Fred Dretske, Mircea Dumitru, Wilhelm Dupré, Gerald Dworkin, John Earman, Ellery Eells, Catherine Z. Elgin, Berent Enç, Ronald P. Endicott, Edward Erwin, John Etchemendy, C. Stephen Evans, Susan L. Feagin, Solomon Feferman, Richard Feldman, Arthur Fine, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, William FitzPatrick, Richard E. Flathman, Gvozden Flego, Richard Foley, Graeme Forbes, Rainer Forst, Malcolm R. Forster, Daniel Fouke, Patrick Francken, Samuel Freeman, Elizabeth Fricker, Miranda Fricker, Michael Friedman, Michael Fuerstein, Richard A. Fumerton, Alan Gabbey, Pieranna Garavaso, Daniel Garber, Jorge L. A. Garcia, Robert K. Garcia, Don Garrett, Philip Gasper, Gerald Gaus, Berys Gaut, Bernard Gert, Roger F. Gibson, Cody Gilmore, Carl Ginet, Alan H. Goldman, Alvin I. Goldman, Alfonso Gömez-Lobo, Lenn E. Goodman, Robert M. Gordon, Stefan Gosepath, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Daniel W. Graham, George A. Graham, Peter J. Graham, Richard E. 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Hull, Patricia Huntington, Thomas Hurka, Paul Hurley, Rosalind Hursthouse, Guillermo Hurtado, Ronald E. Hustwit, Sarah Hutton, Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, Harry A. Ide, David Ingram, Philip J. Ivanhoe, Alfred L. Ivry, Frank Jackson, Dale Jacquette, Joseph Jedwab, Richard Jeffrey, David Alan Johnson, Edward Johnson, Mark D. Jordan, Richard Joyce, Hwa Yol Jung, Robert Hillary Kane, Tomis Kapitan, Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, James A. Keller, Ralph Kennedy, Sergei Khoruzhii, Jaegwon Kim, Yersu Kim, Nathan L. King, Patricia Kitcher, Peter D. Klein, E. D. Klemke, Virginia Klenk, George L. Kline, Christian Klotz, Simo Knuuttila, Joseph J. Kockelmans, Konstantin Kolenda, Sebastian Tomasz Kołodziejczyk, Isaac Kramnick, Richard Kraut, Fred Kroon, Manfred Kuehn, Steven T. Kuhn, Henry E. Kyburg, John Lachs, Jennifer Lackey, Stephen E. Lahey, Andrea Lavazza, Thomas H. Leahey, Joo Heung Lee, Keith Lehrer, Dorothy Leland, Noah M. 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Quinn, Philip L. Quinn, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Diana Raffman, Gerard Raulet, Stephen L. Read, Andrews Reath, Andrew Reisner, Nicholas Rescher, Henry S. Richardson, Robert C. Richardson, Thomas Ricketts, Wayne D. Riggs, Mark Roberts, Robert C. Roberts, Luke Robinson, Alexander Rosenberg, Gary Rosenkranz, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Adina L. Roskies, William L. Rowe, T. M. Rudavsky, Michael Ruse, Bruce Russell, Lilly-Marlene Russow, Dan Ryder, R. M. Sainsbury, Joseph Salerno, Nathan Salmon, Wesley C. Salmon, Constantine Sandis, David H. Sanford, Marco Santambrogio, David Sapire, Ruth A. Saunders, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Charles Sayward, James P. Scanlan, Richard Schacht, Tamar Schapiro, Frederick F. Schmitt, Jerome B. Schneewind, Calvin O. Schrag, Alan D. Schrift, George F. Schumm, Jean-Loup Seban, David N. Sedley, Kenneth Seeskin, Krister Segerberg, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Dennis M. Senchuk, James F. Sennett, William Lad Sessions, Stewart Shapiro, Tommie Shelby, Donald W. Sherburne, Christopher Shields, Roger A. Shiner, Sydney Shoemaker, Robert K. Shope, Kwong-loi Shun, Wilfried Sieg, A. John Simmons, Robert L. Simon, Marcus G. Singer, Georgette Sinkler, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Matti T. Sintonen, Lawrence Sklar, Brian Skyrms, Robert C. Sleigh, Michael Anthony Slote, Hans Sluga, Barry Smith, Michael Smith, Robin Smith, Robert Sokolowski, Robert C. Solomon, Marta Soniewicka, Philip Soper, Ernest Sosa, Nicholas Southwood, Paul Vincent Spade, T. L. S. Sprigge, Eric O. Springsted, George J. Stack, Rebecca Stangl, Jason Stanley, Florian Steinberger, Sören Stenlund, Christopher Stephens, James P. Sterba, Josef Stern, Matthias Steup, M. A. Stewart, Leopold Stubenberg, Edith Dudley Sulla, Frederick Suppe, Jere Paul Surber, David George Sussman, Sigrún Svavarsdóttir, Zeno G. Swijtink, Richard Swinburne, Charles C. Taliaferro, Robert B. Talisse, John Tasioulas, Paul Teller, Larry S. Temkin, Mark Textor, H. S. Thayer, Peter Thielke, Alan Thomas, Amie L. Thomasson, Katherine Thomson-Jones, Joshua C. Thurow, Vzalerie Tiberius, Terrence N. Tice, Paul Tidman, Mark C. Timmons, William Tolhurst, James E. Tomberlin, Rosemarie Tong, Lawrence Torcello, Kelly Trogdon, J. D. Trout, Robert E. Tully, Raimo Tuomela, John Turri, Martin M. Tweedale, Thomas Uebel, Jennifer Uleman, James Van Cleve, Harry van der Linden, Peter van Inwagen, Bryan W. Van Norden, René van Woudenberg, Donald Phillip Verene, Samantha Vice, Thomas Vinci, Donald Wayne Viney, Barbara Von Eckardt, Peter B. M. Vranas, Steven J. Wagner, William J. Wainwright, Paul E. Walker, Robert E. Wall, Craig Walton, Douglas Walton, Eric Watkins, Richard A. Watson, Michael V. Wedin, Rudolph H. Weingartner, Paul Weirich, Paul J. Weithman, Carl Wellman, Howard Wettstein, Samuel C. Wheeler, Stephen A. White, Jennifer Whiting, Edward R. Wierenga, Michael Williams, Fred Wilson, W. Kent Wilson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John F. Wippel, Jan Woleński, Allan B. Wolter, Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Rega Wood, W. Jay Wood, Paul Woodruff, Alison Wylie, Gideon Yaffe, Takashi Yagisawa, Yutaka Yamamoto, Keith E. Yandell, Xiaomei Yang, Dean Zimmerman, Günter Zoller, Catherine Zuckert, Michael Zuckert, Jack A. Zupko (J.A.Z.)
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- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
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- By Nick Ashton, Corrie C. Bakels, Ofer Bar-Yosef, James S. Brink, James Cole, Robin Dunbar, Paraskevi Elefanti, Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Chris Gosden, John A. J. Gowlett, Matt Grove, Andy I. R. Herries, Sally Hoare, Olaf Jöris, Sander E. van der Leeuw, Gilbert Marshall, Steven Mithen, Margherita Mussi, Isaya Onjala, Paul Pettitt, Martin Porr, Dwight W. Read, Wil Roebroeks, Stephen M. Rucina, Anthony Sinclair, Mark J. White, Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Edited by Fiona Coward, Royal Holloway, University of London, Robert Hosfield, University of Reading, Matt Pope, University College London, Francis Wenban-Smith, University of Southampton
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- Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution
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Chapter 5 - At the Heart of the AfricanAcheulean: the physical, social and cognitivelandscapes of Kilombe
- Edited by Fiona Coward, Royal Holloway, University of London, Robert Hosfield, University of Reading, Matt Pope, University College London, Francis Wenban-Smith, University of Southampton
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- Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution
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- By Karl-Erik Andersson, Anthony Atala, Atta Behfar, Timothy A. Bertram, Stefanie Biechler, Peter R. Brink, David Burmeister, Martin K. Childers, George J. Christ, Ira S. Cohen, Stephen A. Fann, Harold I. Friedman, Mark E. Furth, Peter A. Galie, Gautam S. Ghatnekar, Richard L. Goodwin, Robert G. Gourdie, Roche de Guzman, Benjamin S. Harrison, Johnny Huard, Emily Ongstad, Jay D. Potts, Lola M. Reid, Justin M. Saul, G. Sitta Sittampalam, Bert Spilker, Jan P. Stegemann, Andre Terzic, Panagiotis A. Tsonis, Virginijus Valiunas, Mark Van Dyke, J. B. Vella, M. Natalia Vergara, Belinda J. Wagner, J. Koudy Williams, James Yoo, Michael J. Yost
- Edited by George J. Christ, Karl-Erik Andersson
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- Regenerative Pharmacology
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Expression of bovine β-lactoglobulin transgenic mice
- ALFONSO GUTIÉRREZ-ADÁN, ELIZABETH A. MAGA, ESMAIL BEHBOODI, JANICE S. CONRAD-BRINK, ANTHONY G. MACKINLAY, GARY B. ANDERSON, JAMES D. MURRAY
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- Journal of Dairy Research / Volume 66 / Issue 2 / May 1999
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- 01 May 1999, pp. 289-294
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The use of transgenic animals to manipulate milk composition has considerable potential, both for the production of biomedical proteins and for the direct manipulation of milk composition for the improvement of dairy animals and their products (for reviews, see Wall et al. 1992; Yom & Bremel, 1993). Promoters from a number of milk protein genes from a variety of species have been tested for their ability to direct the expression of foreign proteins to the mammary gland (for review, see Maga & Murray, 1995).
β-Lactoglobulin (β-lg) is the major whey protein produced in ruminant milk and is part of the normal milk composition of most mammals except humans and rodents (Pervaiz & Brew, 1985). It is expressed at high levels in the mammary gland and is developmentally regulated. Transgenic mice have been produced using the complete ovine (Simons et al. 1987; Shani et al. 1992) and caprine (Ibañez et al. 1997) β-lg genes. In general, high levels of expression were obtained with the ovine β-lg gene, and expression was also seen in a position-independent manner (Whitelaw et al. 1992). Lower levels of expression were reported using the caprine β-lg gene. Here we report the production of transgenic mice using the bovine β-lg gene. We describe high expression, position-dependent, and copy number-related expression of bovine β-lg protein in the milk of six lines of transgenic mice.