Human Adaptability: An Introduction To Ecological Anthropology, Second Edition - Hardcover

Designed to help students to understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, this is a study of environmental, physiological, behavioural and cultural adaptive strategies. Among the book's features are a discussion of the development of ecological anthropology and of relevant research methods; the use of an ecosystem approach with emphasis on arctic, high-altitude, arid-land, grassland, and tropical-rain-forest environments; a ecological-anthropology bibliography with over 700 references, both classic and recent; and an extensive glossary of technical terms.