Atlantic Slavery: Lost in Trans-lation

Genetic Evidence of African Slavery at the Beginning of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

An archaeological excavation in Valle da Gafaria (Lagos, Portugal), revealed two contiguous burial places outside the medieval city walls, dating from the 15(th)-17(th) centuries AD: one was interpreted as a Leprosarium cemetery and the second as an urban discard deposit, where signs of violent, unceremonious burials suggested that these remains may belong to slaves captured in Africa by the Po...

First satellite tracks of South Atlantic sea turtle ‘lost years’: seasonal variation in trans-equatorial movement

In the South Atlantic Ocean, few data exist regarding the dispersal of young oceanic sea turtles. We characterized the movements of laboratory-reared yearling loggerhead turtles from Brazilian rookeries using novel telemetry techniques, testing for differences in dispersal during different periods of the sea turtle hatching season that correspond to seasonal changes in ocean currents. Oceanogra...

Trans-Atlantic UDP and TCP network tests

A VLBI trans-Atlantic connection would greatly extend the resolution of capabilities of eVLBI. So far igrid 2005 and SC 2005 saw the first UKlight connection to the US via Chicago. We report on UDP and TCP network tests performed between Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, and Haystack Observatory, USA, utilising the UKLight dedicated lightpath, provided by the ESLEA project, to the Starlight connect...

Slavery driven

Most historians and biologists have come to Darwin through his book, On the Origin of Species. They have been curious about his biological life before this ground-breaking book and how he developed his ideas. They have had rich pickings; Darwin was an affluent middle-class Englishman with powerful connections and he was an enthusiastic correspondent. Adrian Desmond and James Moore have publishe...

Slavery in Puerto Rico