Includes bibliographical references.

pt. 1. Some natural environments of man. Climates of the earth : an historical review -- Climate changes of the past and present / Erling Dorf -- Trends in climatology / H.E. Landsberg -- The eocology of prehistoric man. Some environmental and cultural factors influencing the structuring of Australian aboriginal populations / Joseph B. Birdsell -- The land and early food production. Microenvironments and Mesoamerican prehistory / Michael D. Code, Kent V. Flannery -- Environment and man in arid America / Harold E. Malde -- Environmental limitation on the development of culture / Betty J. Meggers -- Temperature and the evolution of man. The application of ecological rules to the racial anthropology of the aboriginal New World / Marshall T. Newman -- Evolution of climatic adaptation in homeotherms / P.F. Scholander -- Adaptation of man to cold climates / Marshall T. Newman -- Geographical character gradients and climatic adaptation / Ernst Mayr -- Climatic rules / P.F. Scholander -- Ecological rules, Body-heat regulation, and human evolution / Eugene Schreider -- Temperature and human reproduction. Temperature and the production of spermatozoa / T.D. Glover, D.H. Young -- The land and disease patterns. An epidemiological study of congenital malformations in New York State / John T. Gentry, Elizabeth Parkhurst, George V. Bulin, Jr. -- Altitude. Variation in neonatal death rate and birth weight in the United States and possible relations to environmental radiation, geology and altitude / Douglas Grahn, Jack Kratchman -- Cycles in man. Seasonal variation in the births of the mentally deficient / Hilda Knobloch, Benjamin Pasamanick -- Problems in bioclimatologyh / Rene J. Dubos -- The fetal environment. Influence of the environment on the unborn / Ian W. Monie -- Maternal height and the prevalence of stillbirths / Jack B. Bresler -- pt. 2. Some environmental factors developed by man. Human populations and stress -- World population growth : an international dilemma / Harold F. Dorn -- The hare and the haruspex : a cautionary tale / Edward S. Deevey -- Cybernetics of population control / Hudson Hoagland -- Radiation and human life. Biological aspects of nuclear weapons / Cyril L. Comar -- Leukemia, multiple myeloma, and aplastic anemia in American radiologists / E.B. Lewis -- The air we breathe. Air conservation / A.J. Haagen-Smit -- Effect of synthetic smog on spontaneous activity of mice / Robert D. Boche, J.J. Quilligan, Jr. -- Smoking and death rates, a riddle in cause and effect / E. Cuyler Hammond -- Polonium-210 : a volatile radioelement in cigarettes / Edward P. Radford, Vilma R. Hunt -- Man in space. The Mercury-Atlas-6 space flight / John H. Glenn, Jr., John A. O'Keefe -- Martian biology : the experimentalist's approach / S.M. Siegel [and others].