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Lunga Bam
Researcher at South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
Publications - 19
Citations - 149
Lunga Bam is an academic researcher from South African Nuclear Energy Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Geology & Australopithecus. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 16 publications receiving 98 citations. Previous affiliations of Lunga Bam include Stony Brook University.
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A new partial temporal bone of a juvenile hominin from the site of Kromdraai B (South Africa).
José Braga,José Braga,John Francis Thackeray,Jean Dumoncel,Didier Descouens,Laurent Bruxelles,Laurent Bruxelles,Jean-Michel Loubes,Jean-Luc Kahn,Marco Stampanoni,Lunga Bam,Jakobus Hoffman,Frikkie de Beer,Fred Spoor,Fred Spoor +14 more
TL;DR: The ongoing fieldwork at KB, as well as the petrography and geochemistry of its deposits, will help to determine when the various KB breccias accumulated, and how time may be an important factor underlying the variation seen among KB 6067 and the rest of the fossil hominin sample from this site.
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Upper third molar internal structural organization and semicircular canal morphology in Plio-Pleistocene South African cercopithecoids
Amélie Beaudet,Amélie Beaudet,Jean Dumoncel,John Francis Thackeray,Laurent Bruxelles,Laurent Bruxelles,Benjamin Duployer,Christophe Tenailleau,Lunga Bam,Jakobus Hoffman,Frikkie de Beer,José Braga,José Braga +12 more
TL;DR: Preliminary results show that enamel-dentine junction morphology could be informative for discriminating highly autapomorphic taxa such as Theropithecus, while semicircular canal shape is tentatively proposed as an efficient criterion for diagnosing Dinopithecus ingens.
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The atlas of StW 573 and the late emergence of human-like head mobility and brain metabolism
Amélie Beaudet,Amélie Beaudet,Ronald J. Clarke,Jason L. Heaton,Jason L. Heaton,Jason L. Heaton,Travis Rayne Pickering,Travis Rayne Pickering,Travis Rayne Pickering,Kristian J. Carlson,Kristian J. Carlson,Robin H. Crompton,Robin H. Crompton,Tea Jashashvili,Tea Jashashvili,Tea Jashashvili,Laurent Bruxelles,Laurent Bruxelles,Kudakwashe Jakata,Lunga Bam,Luc Van Hoorebeke,Kathleen Kuman,Dominic Stratford +22 more
TL;DR: Assessment of the cross-sectional areas of the transverse foramina of the atlas and the left carotid canal in StW 573 further suggests there may have been lower metabolic costs for cerebral tissues in this hominin than have been attributed to extant humans and may support the idea that blood perfusion of these tissues increased over the course of hom inin evolution.
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Micro-Focus X-Ray Tomography Study of the Microstructure and Morphometry of the Eggshell of Ostriches (Struthio Camerus).
TL;DR: The morphology and the morphometry of the ostrich eggshell was investigated using micro‐focus X‐ray computer tomography and scanning electron microscopy and no significant correlations were found between the thickness of the shell and the weight of the eggs, the volume of the egg and the thickness, the diameter of the pores and the number of pores.
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Recycling of Paleoplacer Gold through Mechanical and Postdepositional Mobilization in the Neoarchean Black Reef Formation, South Africa
Glen T. Nwaila,Musa Manzi,J. Kirk,H. K. Maselela,Raymond Durrheim,Derek H. Rose,Phumzile C. Nwaila,Lunga Bam,T. Khumalo +8 more
TL;DR: The source of gold in the ca. 2.66 Ga Black Reef Formation (BRF) has been investigated and constrained through petrographic, mineralogical, geochemical, and high-resolution three-dimensional data as discussed by the authors.