Special Issue “Ethnopharmacology in Latin America”

Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America

1 Laboratory of Applied Ethnobotany, Department of Biology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, 52171-900 Recife, PE, Brazil 2 Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 3Ethnozoology, Conservation and Biodiversity Research Group, Department of Biology, State University of Paraı́ba, 58429-500 João P...

Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America 2013

1 Biology Department, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Rua DomManoel de Medeiros, Recife, PE, Brazil 2 Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA 3 Campus Cuité, Centro de Educação e Saúde (CES), Unidade de Educação (UAE), Curso de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), ...

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eNeurologicalSci – Special Issue on Neurological Disorders in South America

South America includes 12 countries and three overseas territories, currently accounting for a total population of approximately 420million people. Life expectancy rates have grown significantly in the continent in the last 50 years and nowadays for almost all countries life expectancy at birth has reached 72 or more years. Within this scenario of significant population growth and rapid process...

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 ...