Underlying the anthropological study of humans is the principle that there is a reality to which a human must adapt for survival

Introduction; I: Issues and Concepts in the Study of Adaptation; 1: Genes, Culture, and Man; 2: Genetic Drift and Selection of Gene Systems; 3: How to be Human; 4: The Meaning of Fitness and the Future of Man; 5: Natural Selection in Man: Some Basic Problems; 6: The Cultural Animal; 7: Behavior and the Origin of Man; II: Incipient Adaptations: Monkeys and Apes; 8: Adaptive Functions of Primate Societies; 9: Observations on the Ecology and Social Behavior of the Mountain Gorilla; 10: The Behavior of Chimpanzees in their Natural Habitat; 11: Baboon Ecology and Human Evolution; 12: Social Units of a Free-Living Population of Hamadryas Baboons; 13: Kinship and the Family in Monkeys, Apes, and Man; 14: Status; III: Explorations in the Natural History of Human Adaptations; 15: The Protocultural Foundations of Human Adaptation; 16: The Evolution of the Human Hand; 17: Man as Tool-Maker; 18: Genetics and the Races of Man; 19: Man for All Seasons; 20: Hominid Adaptations; 21: Neanderthalers; IV: Adaptations in Local Populations; 22: Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in Africa; 23: Adaptation and Variation Among Hunter-Gatherers; 24: The Effect of Chronic Exposure to Cold on Temperature and Blood Flow of the Hand; 25: Human Adaptation to High Altitude; 26: Mineral Metabolism and Behavior: Abnormalities of Calcium Homeostasis; 27: The Spearman and the Archer; 28: Bushman Hunter-Gatherers: A Study in Human Ecology; V: Speech as a Human Adaptation; 29: The Human Revolution; 30: The Capacity for Language Acquisition; 31: Functions of Speech: An Evolutionary Approach; 32: Urbanism, Migration, and Language; 33: Linguistic Relativity and Determinism; 34: Signifying and Marking: Two Afro-American Speech Acts; VI: Beginnings in Cultural Adaptation: Archeological Explorations; ; 35: Food Production in Prehistoric Europe; 36: Ecological Zones and Economic Stages; 37: Habitat, Culture, and Archeology; 38: Some Aspects of Prehistoric Society in East-Central Arizona; 39: Cultural Ecology of Nuclear Mesoamerica; 40: Farming Systems and Political Growth in Ancient Oaxaca; 41: Irrigation in the Old Acolhua Domain, Mexico; 42: Investigating the Origins of Mesopotamian Civilization; 43: The Study of Ancient Mesopotamian Settlement Patterns and the Problem of Urban Origins; 44: Early Civilizations, Subsistence, and Environment