The Aymara: Strategies in Human Adaptation to a Rigorous Environment

1: Introduction: The place and the study.- 2: Flora and fauna.- 3: Trace metals.- 4: The Aymará: An outline of their pre and post-Columbian history.- 5: Paleopathology.- 6: Nutritional characteristics of the Aymará of northern Chile.- 7: The Chilean Aymará and their reproductive patterns.- 8: Ecologic determinants of the health of Aymará children.- 9: Disease and disability among the Aymará.- 10: Heterozygosity and physical growth in an Andean population.- 11: Hearing and hypoxia among the Aymará.- 12: Altitude and cardiopulmonary relationships.- 13: Oral characteristics of the Aymará.- 14: Intratribal genetic differentiation as assessed through electrophoresis.- 15: Ethnogenesis and affinities to other South American aboriginal populations.- 16: Epilogue.- References.- Multinational Andean Genetic and Health Program Publications.