Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Biogeography and Humans: An Introduction -- Why Humans? -- Human Taxonomic Terminology -- Human Variation -- Organization of the Chapters -- Sources and Methods -- PART ONE. WHY AND HOW ARE WE WHERE WE ARE? HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF HUMANS -- 2. Origins and Dispersal -- Regional Variation as Evidence of Origins and Dispersal -- Origins and Global Dispersal -- Sex Differences in Dispersal -- Other Species as Evidence of Human Origins and Dispersal -- 3. Climate, and Hominin Evolution and Dispersal -- Climate and Hominin Origins -- Climate and Hominin Dispersals -- 4. Barriers to Movement -- Barriers Limit the Movement of Primates -- Barriers Limit the Movement of Humans -- PART TWO. ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON HUMAN NATURE, DIVERSITY, AND NUMBERS -- 5. How Are We Adapted to Our Environment? -- Climate Affects Form and Function -- Elevation (Altitude) and Regional Variation in Anatomy and Physiology -- Latitude, Climate, and Human Cultural Diversity -- Latitude, Climate, and Population -- 6. Use of Area -- Area Available and Area Used -- Area and Diversity -- Area, Environment, and Density -- 7. A Biogeography of Human Diet and Drugs -- Milk Consumption and Lactase Production -- Starch and Salivary Amylase -- Only the Japanese Can Digest Seaweed -- Alcohol Enzymes and Alcoholism -- Two Enzymes, Codeine, and Antidepressants -- The High- Protein, High- Fat Eskimo/Inuit Diet -- PART THREE. INTERACTION AMONG CULTURES AND SPECIES -- 8. We Affect Our Biogeography -- Deliberate and Inadvertent Extermination -- Range Change in the Face of Competition -- Competition and the Move out of Africa -- Disappearing Cultures -- Cooperation and Its Biogeographical Consequences -- 9. Other Species Affect Our Biogeography -- Disease and Human Biogeography -- Disease and Conquest -- Disease and Human Population Density.

Competitors, Predators, Prey, and Human Biogeography -- 10. We Affect Other Species' Biogeography -- Humans vs. Other Homo Species -- Late Quaternary and Recent Extinctions -- Climate or Humans? -- If Humans, How? -- Reduction of Geographic Range -- Change in Community Structure -- Humans Benefit Many Species -- References -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- X -- Y -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.