: Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas . Richard Price.

Rebel Without Applause : Richard Goldschmidt , Developmental Genetics and the Sex - Determination Controversy

With the recent mapping of the human genome, scientists have dramatically increased their ability to explain inheritance patterns. Yet, even so, developmental genetics remains relatively elusive. The discrepancy between these two approaches to genetics is not a new divide in the research community. Richard Goldschmidt is one scientist in the past who attempted to bridge this divide. As a German...

Food intake and nutritional status of preschool from maroon communities of the state Alagoas, Brazil

OBJECTIVE To assess the dietary intake and the nutritional status of children from Alagoas maroon communities. METHODS Cross-sectional study involving 724 children (12-60 months) from 39 Alagoas maroon communities. The nutritional status was investigated by anthropometric, biochemical (hemoglobin) and food consumption indicators. RESULTS The prevalence of anemia, stunting and obesity were, ...

Eight Americas: Differences in Asian Communities Are Important

Sam Singer In their essay in October’s PLoS Medicine, Daniel Reidpath and Kit Yee Chan challenge the widely cited link between HIV-related stigma and the spread of the epidemic [1]. This is an important question, given the heavy emphasis on stigma in policies of the World Health Organization, the Joint United Programme on HIV/AIDS, and other public health institutions, but in making their argum...

Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies; Born to rebel: birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives

The Play of Slave Children in the Plantation Communities of the Old South, 1820-1860

Most of the earliest studies done on Southern plantation life portrayed slaves as people without a culture, without philosophical beliefs, and without educational instruments of their own. Historians often viewed slaves as barbarians to be civilized; as perpetual children at best, and animals at worst. As such, it was assumed that slaves held no strong values or convictions and that they were w...