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Language of Everyday Teenagers in Their Music
What happens when two authors – members of a social group we define as “everyday teenagers” growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s on either side of the Atlantic – compare the music that formed the sound...
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Against the backdrop of the sizable economic growth of China in recent years, this paper uses the most recent data gathering of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network to update and suppleme...
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The nature of species, especially as applied to large mammals, is of major concern in conservation. Here, we briefly comment on recent thinking in alpha taxonomy, and assert that species are in essence evoluti...
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Five species of mouse or forest shrews (Myosorex) are endemic to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, four of which (Myosorex varius, Myosorex cafer, Myosorex longicaudatus and Myosorex cf. tenuis) are associated...
