Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture

Jamaican Food

Mesenchymal Stem Cells: History, Isolation and Biology

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) as a kind of adult stem cells possess two properties of long term selfrenewal ability and multilineage differentiation potential into skeletal cell lineages. MSCs were first isolated and described from bone marrow samples. Further investigations have identified several other tissues as alternative sources for these cells. In spite of the clinical importance of MSCs...

Identity Making in Jamaican Dancehall Culture

Does Biology Constrain Culture?

Most social scientists would agree that the capacity for human culture was probably fashioned by natural selection, but they disagree about the implications of this supposition. Some believe that natural selection imposes important constraints on the ways in which culture can vary, while others believe that any such constraints must be negligible. This paper employs a “thought experiment” to de...

Emotion, Biology, and Culture

In this chapter we first review theories of emotion that are most relevant to a consideration of the roles of biology and culture. We then review the existing cross-cultural and crossethnic research relevant to these theories, with particular emphasis on studies that have actually measured biological responses that occur during emotional reactions. We conclude by presenting a revised version of...