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RESEARCH ARTICLES
A new species of fox from the Australopithecus sediba type locality, Malapa, South Africa
Adam Hartstone-Rose, Brian F. Kuhn, Shahed Nalla, Lars Werdelin & Lee R. Berger. pages 1-9
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.748698
The microvascular anatomy of the lung in adult Xenopus laevis Daudin (Lissamphibia; Anura): scanning electron microcopy of vascular corrosion casts and correlative light microscopy
Wasan Tangphokhanon & Alois Lametschwandtner. pages 11-23
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.747188
Mineralogical and geochemical analyses of the healing elements in clayey soils from Isinuka traditional spa in Port St Johns, South Africa. Ndze Denis Jumbam. pages 25-31
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.756075
Human bioaccessibility of Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu from consumed earth materials in Vhembe District, South Africa. Abuh Momoh, Theo Davies, Henry Akinsola, Segun A. Akinyemi, Siphwe Mhlongo, Wilson Gitari & G.K. Pindihama. pages 33-39
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.755715
The roots of early mammals lie in the Karoo: Robert Broom’s foundation and subsequent research progress. Bruce Rubidge. pages 41-52
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.737868
Melatonin protects heart and brain. Lionel H. Opie & Sandrine Lecour. pages 53-56
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.745032
REVIEW
Current knowledge of spiders in South African agroecosystems (Arachnida, Araneae) A.S. Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.M. Van den Berg, C.R. Haddad & R. Lyle. pages 57-74
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.755136
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Length–weight relationships and condition factors of six fish species caught using gill nets in a tropical African reservoir, Zimbabwe. Tatenda Dalu, Bruce Clegg & Tamuka Nhiwatiwa. pages 75-79
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.733318
A novel record of aardwolf Proteles cristata feeding behaviour. Richard W. Yarnell & Lynne MacTavish. pages 81-82
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.757712
BOOK REVIEW
Global Health and Global Health Ethics. Peter Cleaton-Jones. page 83
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0035919X.2012.745033
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Previous Issue : 67(3) of 2012 :
Research Articles
Aquatic macrophytes in a tropical African reservoir: diversity, communities and the impact of reservoir-level fluctuations
Tatenda Dalu, Bruce Clegg & Tamuka Nhiwatiwa
Pages: 117-125
Henry Paul William Lyster Jameson, MA, DSc, PhD (1875–1922) – a polymath: zoologist, Transvaal educationist, entrepreneur, civil servant and Marxist
Stephen A. Craven
Pages: 127-134
Anatomical and landmark morphometric analysis of fossil phocid seal remains from Langebaanweg, West Coast of South Africa
Romala Govender, Anusuya Chinsamy & Rebecca Rogers Ackermann
Pages: 135-149
The continued fraction expansion of Gauss’ hypergeometric function and a new application to the tangent function
Kamilla Oliver & Helmut Prodinger
Pages: 151-154
ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL SCHOOLS’ ESSAY COMPETITION 2012
Katrina Lehmann-Grube : ‘Tuberculosis:control through management, integration and motivation’
Lauren Alston : ‘The science which is most needed to improve the quality of life in Africa’
Pages: 155-161
Book Reviews
Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation, Histology, Biology
Michael A. Raath
Pages: 163-164
Prickly Pear. The Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape
Llewellyn Foxcroft
Pages: 165-166
Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton
Timm Hoffman
Pages: 167-168
Biographical Memoir
Phillip Vallentine Tobias Hon. FRSSAf, 1925–2012