1). Genetic differentiation was detected between many of the sites, with the highest overall FST values involving comparisons with Norfolk Canyon, ranging from 0.062 (Pea Island) to 0.121 (Cape Fear). Pairwise FST values were also high for comparisons involving the New England canyons (e.g.,...
South Africa is one of the major users of pesticides on the African continent. The Eastern Cape is the second largest province in South Africa. There has been growing concern about the occurrence of certain birth defects which seemed to have increased in
upwelling-favourable winds (e.g. equatorward alongshore winds) due to the intensification of the continental-oceanic pressure gradient under global warming9. A more recent hypothesis suggests an alternative mechanism, whereby a poleward shift of the oceanic high-pressure system would stimulate latitude...
Over the past decade, the increasing wealth of new archaeological data on the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in Senegal and Mali has broadened our understanding of West Africa’s contributions to cultural developments. Within the West African sequence, the phase of Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3, ca....