Worldwide Variation in Human Growth / Edition 2

Worldwide Variation in Human Growth / Edition 2

ISBN-10:
0521359163
ISBN-13:
9780521359160
Pub. Date:
01/17/1991
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521359163
ISBN-13:
9780521359160
Pub. Date:
01/17/1991
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Worldwide Variation in Human Growth / Edition 2

Worldwide Variation in Human Growth / Edition 2

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Overview

The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. This theme, prevalent in this book, underlies the analysis and presentation of what is by far the largest compilation of growth data ever assembled in one source. The first edition, published in 1976, included all known reliable recent results on height, weight, skinfolds, and other body measurements from all parts of the globe. In this edition, numerous subsequent measurements taken between 1976 and 1988 have been included, as well as the results of a large number of new studies made on rate of maturation as evinced by bone age and pubertal development stages. Many sections of the book dwell on disentangling the effects of the environment and heredity on growth, and attempt to answer the question of whether one universal standard suffices for all peoples of the world or whether different populations (such as races or nations) should each have their own optimal growth standards.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521359160
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/17/1991
Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological & Evolutionary Anthropology
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 412
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to comparative growth studies: methods and standards; 2. Europeans in Europe; 3. European descendants in Australasia, Africa and the Americas; 4. Africans in Africa and of African ancestry; 5. Asiatics in Asia and the Americas 6. Indo-Mediterraneans in the Near East, North Africa and India; 7. Australian Aborigines and Pacific Island peoples; 8. Rate of maturation: population differences in skeletal, dental and pubertal development; 9. Genetic influence on growth: family and race comparisons; 10. Environmental influence ongrowth; 11. Child growth and chronic disease in adults; References; Appendix; Index.
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