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Perched on the Plateau: Speciation in a Cape Fold Mountain Velvet Worm Clade, With the Description of Seven New Species (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Peripatopsis) From South Africa

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.
Molecular systematic studies revealed seven novel velvet worm species from the Cape Fold Mountains in the Western Cape, South Africa suggest high levels of endemism for forest‐dwelling species such a velvet worms (Peripatopsis). Photographic images of five of the new species (B‐F). ABSTRACT During the present study, we re‐examined species boundaries in
Savel R. Daniels, Aaron Barnes
wiley   +1 more source

‘Furnisht with such members as are after a sort burthensome unto them’: White Traveller Perceptions of Black Male Bodies and the Construction of Race, 1450–1730

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 72-90, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores how European travellers to Africa perceived African masculinity, the male body and sexuality during the period of 1450–1730. It argues that their observations helped Europeans construct early notions of racial difference at a time when skin colour was not the most important marker of difference classifying people.
Sergio Lussana
wiley   +1 more source

The Complexly Parcellated, Yet Quantitatively Reduced, Orexinergic/Hypocretinergic System of Humans

open access: yesJournal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 533, Issue 2, February 2025.
Immunohistochemical staining for orexin‐A reveals the novel parvocellular orexinergic neuronal cluster (left) in the human brain. In comparison to the more typically observed orexinergic neurons of the main cluster (right), the parvocellular neurons have much smaller soma. Scale bar = 100 µm, applies to both images.
Illke B. Malungo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

When shall these dry bones live?' : interactions between the London Missionary Society and the San along the Cape's North-Eastern Frontier, 1790-1833 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-122).This study is an analysis of the interactions between the London Missionary Society (LMS) and the San during the period from 1799, when the LMS first arrived at the Cape, to 1833, when the LMS ...
McDonald, Jared
core   +1 more source

Writing Settler Constitutions, Debating Imperial Responsibility, and Managing the Conscience of Parliamentary Empire, c.1860–1910*

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 35-53, February 2025.
Abstract This article explores how settler self‐government and written constitutions provoked questions about the responsibilities towards Indigenous peoples and the role of British parliament in the imperial constitution. It traces how British and settler commentators drew connections between colonies in their responses to Indigenous and humanitarian ...
Alex Martinborough
wiley   +1 more source

Sam Sly's African Journal and the role of satire in colonial British identity at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1840-1850 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-171).In 1843, William Sammons founded the peculiarly named Sam Sly’s African Journal (1843 -1851) in Cape Town. Claiming to be a ‘register of facts, fiction, news, literature, commerce and
Holdridge, Christopher Arthur
core   +1 more source

The Non‐Racial Franchise, Constitutionalism, and the Mother of Parliaments in South Africa, 1880–1922*

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 73-88, February 2025.
Abstract Black British subjects were made in and by empire in South Africa. They both expressed loyalty and belief in the idea of empire – embracing arch‐imperialist Cecil Rhodes’ 1898 campaign promise of ‘equal rights for all civilized men south of the Zambesi’ – and criticised brutality and injustice as failures of its promises.
Charles V. Reed
wiley   +1 more source

Diversification and mobility of Khoikhoi labour in the eastern districts of the Cape Colony prior to the labour law of 1 November 1809

open access: yes, 1978
Bibliography: p. 202-208.Until recently research concerned with Khoikhoi in the nineteenth century tended to focus on the important labour legislation, especially on the labour law of 1809, the child apprenticeship law of 1812, and Ordinance 50 of 1828 ...
Malherbe, Vertrees Canby
core   +1 more source

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