WILLIAM R. LEONARD is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, Illinois. He is a biological anthropologist whose research focusses heavily on aspects of physiology, nutrition and health. He has extensive fieldwork experience in Siberia and Latin America examining how human populations adapt to extreme environments.
1. The biological diversity of herding populations: an introduction Michael
H. Crawford and William R. Leonard; 2. Genetic structure of pastoral
populations of Siberia: the Evenki of Central Siberia and the Kizhi of
Gorno Altai Michael H. Crawford, Joseph McComb, Moses S. Schanfield and R.
John Mitchell; 3. Genetic structure of the Basque herders of northern Spain
Rosarió Calderón; 4. History, demography, marital patterns and immigration
rate in the South Sinai Bedouins: their effect of the coefficient of
inbreeding (F) E. Kobyliansky and I. Hershkovitz; 5. Uncertain disaster:
environmental instability, colonial policy, and the resilience of East
African pastoral systems Sandra Gray, Paul Leslie and Helen Alinga Akol; 6.
Changing pattern of Tibetan nomadic pastoralism Melvyn C. Goldstein and
Cynthia M. Beall; 7. Human biology, health and ecology of nomadic Turkana
pastoralists Michael A. Little; 8. Economic stratification and health among
the Herero of Botswana Renee L. Pennington; 9. Ecology, health and
lifestyle change among the Evenki herders of Siberia William R. Leonard,
Victoria A. Galloway, Evgueni Ivakine, Ludmila Osipova and Marina
Kazakovtseva; 10. Disease patterns in Sámi and Finnish populations: an
update Simo Näyhä, Pauli Luoma, Saara Lehtinen, Terho Lehtimäki, Mary Jane
Mosher and Juhani Leppäluoto; 11. Yomut family organization and demography
William Irons; 12. Pastoralism and the evolution of lactase persistence
Clare Holden and Ruth Mace.
