Latin America. The Eleventh Hour

“The Hour of Eugenics”: race, gender, and nation in Latin America

Gerlach, who believed in a fusion among dendrites. Others, like Golgi, believed that the basic reticulum was made up of axon collaterals. According to Golgi, the nerve cell itself, like its dendrites, was not an essential element in neuronal organization, they had solely nutritive functions. The book is of interest and importance for anyone interested in the history of the nervous system. At on...

Latin America and the Caribbean

Overall HIV Trends The HIV epidemic in Latin America is stable, and the adult HIV prevalence, at 0.4 percent, has remained unchanged between 2001 and 2010. The epidemic in the Caribbean has slowed significantly since the mid-1990s. The adult HIV prevalence in the Caribbean declined from 1.0 in 2001 to 0.9 in 2010. In 2010, about 76,000 people in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries d...

Latin America and the Caribbean

Race in Latin America

category to understand human biological diversity. Humans vary to some extent in their DNA and their outward physical appearance or phenotype, but this diversity cannot be organized into “racial groups” or “races,” even if some genetic and phenotypical variation seems to correlate very broadly with continental geography. Humans are too similar genetically and intracontinental genetic variation ...

News from Latin America

The first international conference on cryptology and Information security, LatinCrypt 2010, will be held at the Baroque Hall located inside the Carolino Building in Puebla, Mexico from August 8 to August 11, 2010. The Program Committee co-chairs are Michel Abdalla (France) and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto (Brazil) while the General chair is Francisco RodrÃŋguez-Henríquez (Mexico). There have been 19 ...