General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: PHENOTYPIC VARIATION AMONG HUMAN POPULATIONS -- Skin Color Variability in the Middle East -- Factor Analysis of Anthropometric Data for Fifteen Race-Age- National Origin Specific Groups -- Certain Problems of Ethnic Anthropology in Southwest Asia in the Light of the Latest Research -- Recent Anthropological Data on the Ammassalimiut Eskimo of East Greenland: Comparative Studies -- Natural Selection and Physical Adaptation to a Biotype of Tropical Africa -- Territorial Morphofunctional Studies in the Soviet Union: The Problem of Adaptive Types -- Adaptation of Morphology to Climate in Central Africa -- The Differential Geography of Races -- Blood Levels of Some Biochemical Components among Negroid Individuals with Hemoglobin A and AS -- Genogeography of Blood Factors in the Transcaucasus -- Morphological Peculiarities of the Body Frame in Different Ethnoterritorial Groups -- Effects of Isolation on Genetic Variability: Macaque Populations as Model Systems -- SECTION TWO: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT -- Introduction -- Variations in Female Physique -- Body Composition of Japanese Children: Factor Analysis of Development -- Genetics of Human Morphological Characters -- Lean Body Mass in Young, Adult, and Advanced Age Groups -- Skeletal Maturation of Japanese-American Hybrids -- Growth and Environment Studies in Czechoslovakia -- Some Biosocial Determinants of the Growth, Health, and Nutritional Status of Papua New Guinean Preschool Children -- Processes of Human Growth in High Altitudes -- Research on Puberty in Haiti -- The Development of Gypsy Children in Changing Living Conditions -- The Relationship Between Human Body Constitution, Longevity, Disease, and Causes of Death -- One of the Factors of Brachycephalization over the Centuries: The Susceptibility of Dolichocephals to Tuberculosis.

A Study of Morphological Variables and Genetic Markers in Urban and Rural South African Negro Male Populations -- Physical Growth and the Social Environment: A West African Example -- Progressive Decline in Stature in India: A Study of Sixty Population Groups -- A Study of Height, Weight, and Arm Girth Measurements of Punjabi Males -- Nutrition and Pregnancy -- The Age at Menarche in Venezuelan Students Residing in Metropolitan Caracas -- The Relevance of Nourishment to the Reproductive Cycle of the Female in India -- An Anatomical View of Demographic Data: Biomass, Fat Mass, and Lean Body Mass of the United States and Mexican Human Populations -- Individual Differences in Skeletal Muscle Fiber Composition -- Adaptive Strategies of Human Populations under Nutritional Stress -- SECTION THREE: EFFECTS OF CHROMOSOMAL VARIATION ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT -- Comments on the Effects of Chromosomal Variation on Human Development -- The XX Male and the XY Female in Humans -- Hormonal Factors in Formative Processes -- Polyploidy in Humans and Other Vertebrates -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.