Rethinking Human Adaptation

Dr. Rada Dyson-Hudson is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, Cornell University. In the past, she was associate professor and research associate in the Department of Pathobiology at the School of Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University. Her attempt to reconcile the implications of natural selection theory with a commitment to social equality led to a rethinking of human adaptation and, among other things, the organization of the symposium at the American Anthropological Association of which this book is a result. Dr. Michael A. Little is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has been scientific coordinator of the Human Adaptability Section of the International Biological Program and is coauthor of Ecology, Energetics, and Human Variability (1976).

• Also of Interest -- Introduction -- An Interactive Model of Human Biological and Behavioral Adaptation -- Evolutionary Ecology and the Analysis of Human Social Behavior -- Nutrition and High Altitude Adaptation: An Example of Human Adaptability in a Multistress Environment -- Evolutionary Biology and the Human Secondary Sex Ratio: Sex Ratio Variation in the United States -- Noble Family Structure and Expansionist Warfare in the Late Middle Ages: A Socioecological Approach -- Woman Capture as a Motivation for Warfare: A Comparative Analysis of Intra-Cultural Variation and a Critique of the "Male Supremacist Complex" -- Mobility as a Negative Factor in Human Adaptability: The Case of South American Tropical Forest Populations -- An Overview of Adaptation