Special Issue: The Taung Child then and now: Commemorating its centenary in a postcolonial age

https://sajs.co.za/issue/view/1257/fullissue12112pdf
A note from the Editor-in-Chief
At the South African Journal of Science we are
delighted to have been given the opportunity to
host a special issue commemorating the centenary
of the publication of the discovery of the Taung
Child – a major milestone in science history.
We are grateful for the collegial and steadfast
work of the Guest Editors, Rebecca Ackermann,
Robyn Pickering, Yonatan Sahle and Lauren
Schroeder. As with other special issues, we have
paid particular attention to the independence of
review processes, with review processes
undertaken by our usual editorial team. We did
ask the Guest Editors for suggestions of
reviewers and expert readers, but we did not
necessarily follow their suggestions – we
considered these as we would consider suggestions
from authors themselves.
We are very pleased, therefore, not only to be
publishing a special issue on very important
issues for science in our context, but also that,
with the kind cooperation of the Guest Editors,
we are able confidently to state that all papers
in the special issue (and those that were not
accepted) were subject to the same levels of
rigorous assessment as all other submissions to
our Journal.