I.  Attainment of critical knowledge of basic concepts in 
population ecology and their applicability to human populations, 
as they are studied by anthropologists.

II.  Understanding of interacting biocultural variables and 
the multiplicity of causality in human population ecology.

III.  Realization of limitations and potential for future 
development of the area.

I.  Discussion/Critical evaluation from the anthropological 
    perspective of terms and concepts in population ecology and 
    their application to human populations.

II.  Theoretical and practical issues and approaches.
   A.  Biocultural interaction

   B.  Levels of analysis (individual to populations)

   C.  The multifactorial environment and human "adaptability"

   D.  Inter- and intra-population variation

III.  Discussion/assessment of current knowledge.

   A.  Human demography and population regulation:  The 
       interaction of environment, biology and culture.

      1) Prehistoric and historic patterns/changes/fluctuations
      2) Human health and fertility
      3) Culture and human reproduction

   B.  Disease ecology, epidemiology and culture.
      1) Co-evolution of human hosts and disease agents
      2) Human population genetics and disease
      3) Disease limiting/promoting aspects of human behavior

   C.  Resource exploitation, social inequity/complexity, and 
       human nutrition.

      1) Optimal foraging in human populations
      2) The agricultural transition
      3) Interrelationships of human subsistence, resource 
         distribution and abundance, and human population
         mobility/migration/spatial organization.