Evolutionary Studies Institute

21/05/2020

An oviraptorosaur adult-egg association from the Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, China

Jin et al 2020

"Here, we describe an oviraptorosaur closely associated with two eggs from the Upper Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation of Jiangxi Province, China, and discuss its implications for various reproductive hypotheses."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2019.1739060?journalCode=ujvp20

12/05/2020

The Karoo explanatory booklet is now available in isiZulu, isiXhosa, and Afrikaans thanks to our students Chandelé Montgomery, Mpilo Nxumalo and Cebisa Mdekazi.

We are still looking for someone to translate in Sesotho, Shona and Ndebele.

12/05/2020

Great news, congratulations to the ESI students for their input

The Karoo explanatory booklet is now available in isiZulu, isiXhosa, and Afrikaans thanks to our students Chandelé Montgomery, Mpilo Nxumalo and Cebisa Mdekazi.

We are still looking for someone to translate in Sesotho, Shona and Ndebele.

11/05/2020

Check out this new paper by our colleagues at UCT!

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

Recalibrating the breakup history of SW Gondwana: U–Pb radioisotopic age constraints from the southern Cape of South Africa

Congratulations to our very own Dr Robert Muir and colleagues!

"Highlights
• First radiometric ages reported for syn-rift Mesozoic deposits exposed in the southern Cape of South Africa.

• Rifting initiated in the Early Jurassic, > 10 Ma earlier than previously envisioned.

• Syn-rift deposits exposed in the southern Cape represent a protracted > 40 Ma period of Jurassic to Cretaceous extension."

Read it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X20300976?dgcid=author

09/05/2020

Congratulations to Dr Tammy Hodgkiss from the Origins Centre Museum for her latest publication on Ochre Use in the Middle Stone Age!

Read it here:
https://oxfordre.com/anthropology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.001.0001/acrefore-9780190854584-e-51

25/04/2020

📗🎓Wits publishes the first clinical data on in SA. The Special Issue of the Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine is published by Wits University Press under open access conditions🔓🆓. Access the entire special issue here: https://journals.co.za/content/journal/wjcm/browse

09/04/2020

Easter egg surprise!

08/04/2020

Congratulations to Rick Tolchard, whose MSc was accepted with Distinction today!