Adaptive Strategies of Human Populations under Nutritional Stress

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1. I-IV I
2. General Editor's Preface V
3. Introduction 1
4. SECTION ONE Phenotypic Variation Among Human Populations
5. Skin Color Variability in the Middle East 7
6. Factor Analysis of Anthropometric Data for Fifteen Race-Age-National Origin Specific Groups 19
7. Certain Problems of Ethnic Anthropology in Southwest Asia in the Light of the Latest Research 45
8. Recent Anthropological Data on the Ammassalimiut Eskimo of East Greenland: Comparative Studies 55
9. Natural Selection and Physical Adaptation to a Biotype of Tropical Africa 69
10. Territorial Morphofunctional Studies in the Soviet Union: the Problem of Adaptive Types 81
11. Adaptation of Morphology to Climate in Central Africa 89
12. The Differential Geography of Races 97
13. Blood Levels of Some Biochemical Components among Negroid Individuals with Hemoglobin A and AS 111
14. Genogeography of Blood Factors in the Transcaucasus 115
15. Morphological Peculiarities of the Body Frame in Different Ethnoterritorial Groups 131
16. Effects of Isolation on Genetic Variability: Macaque Populations as Model Systems 139
17. SECTION TWO Growth and Development
18. Introduction 163
19. Variations in Female Physique 165
20. Body Composition of Japanese Children: Factor Analysis of Development 177
21. Genetics of Human Morphological Characters 187
22. Lean Body Mass in Young, Adult, and Advanced Age Groups 201
23. Skeletal Maturation of Japanese-American Hybrids 207
24. Growth and Environment Studies in Czechoslovakia 213
25. Some Biosocial Determinants of the Growth, Healthy and Nutritional Status of Papua New Guinean Preschool Children 233
26. Processes of Human Growth in High Altitudes 243
27. Research on Puberty in Haiti 255
28. The Development of Gypsy Children in Changing Living Conditions 263
29. The Relationship Between Human Body Constitution, Longevity, Disease, and Causes of Death 273
30. One of the Factors of Brachycephalization over the Centuries: The Susceptibility of Dolichocephals to Tuberculosis 279
31. A Study of Morphological Variables and Genetic Markers in Urban and Rural South African Negro Male Populations 287
32. Physical Growth and the Social Environment: A West African Example 301
33. Progressive Decline in Stature in India: A Study of Sixty Population Groups 315
34. A Study of Height, Weight, and Arm Girth Measurements of Punjabi Males 339
35. Nutrition and Pregnancy 345
36. The Age at Menarche in Venezuelan Students Residing in Metropolitan Caracas 349
37. The Relevance of Nourishment to the Reproductive Cycle of the Female in India 363
38. An Anatomical View of Demographic Data: Biomass, Fat Mass, and Lean Body Mass of the United States and Mexican Human Populations 369
39. Individual Differences in Skeletal Muscle Fiber Composition 379
40. Adaptive Strategies of Human Populations under Nutritional Stress 387
41. SECTION THREE Effects of Chromosomal Variation on Human Development
42. Comments on the Effects of Chromosomal Variation on Human Development 411
43. The XX Male and the XY Female in Humans 417
44. Hormonal Factors in Formative Processes 451
45. Polyploidy in Humans and Other Vertebrates 459
46. Biographical Notes 499
47. Index of Names 509
48. Index of Subjects 519