Foreword Geoffrey Harrison; Preface; 1. Introduction Helen Macbeth and Paul
Collinson; 2. Demographic perspectives on human population dynamics Andrew
Hinde; 3. The growing concentration of world population from 1950 to 2050
John I. Clarke; 4. Population, community and society in peasant societies
Robert Layton; 5. From genetic variation to population dynamics: insights
into the biological understanding of humans Jaume Betranpetit and Francesc
Calafell; 6. Social institutions and demographic regimes in non-industrial
societies: a comparative approach Richard Smith; 7. The dynamics of child
survival Emily K. Rousham and Louise T. Humphrey; 8. Genetic structure of
south Indian caste populations: a confluence of biology and culture L. B.
Jorde, M. J. Bamshad, W. S. Watkins, C. E. Ricker, M. E. Dixon, B. B. Rao,
B. V. R. Prasad and J. M. Naidu; 9. Fertility, mortality and migration
transitions in association with socioeconomic modernisation among highland
minority populations in South East Asia Peter Kunstadter; 10. Ecology,
homeostasis and survival in human population dynamics Robert Attenborough;
Glossary.