How epigenetic changes cause cancer There is a classical view of cancer in which the disease arises via genetic mutations. These mutations cause changes in genes that can make the protein non-functional or over active.
The Subculture that is the âFurry Fandomâ. What is a furry? The first of several meanings is as basic a description as can be discerned. An interesting and, strangely, distinct subculture, the group referred to as âfurriesâ or the âfurry fandomâ are a study in entertainment fanaticism. What began in the 1980âs science fiction fan demographic, developed into a booming social construct, of which, tens of thousands of people around the globe now relate.
Symbolic culture. Symbolic culture is the ability to learn and transmit behavioural traditions from one generation to the next by the invention of things that exist entirely in the symbolic realm. Symbolic culture is the cultural realm constructed and inhabited uniquely by Homo sapiens and is differentiated from ordinary culture, which many other animals possess.