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Baboon travel lines shaped by friendship, not fear, study finds
New research reveals that baboons travel in orderly lines not for strategic protection but simply to stay close to their friends.
Ancient human DNA from a South African rock shelter sheds light on 10,000 years of history
Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town; Joscha Gretzinger, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Stephan Schiffels, Max…
The Biggest Impact Structure On Earth
The Vredefort impact in South Africa, caused by a massive 25 km-wide asteroid, is the largest known impact…
South Africa is famous for its biodiversity: a new network will store and manage its plant and animal samples
Biobank samples can be used to support research in a range of disciplines. luchschenF/Shutterstock Michelle Hamer, South African…