Auxology

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Auxology is a meta-term covering the study of all aspects of human physical growth; though it is also a fundamental of biology, generally. Auxology is a highly multi-disciplinary science involving health sciences / medicine (pediatrics, general practice, endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, physiology, epidemiology), and to a lesser extent: nutrition, genetics, anthropology, anthropometry, ergonomics, history, economic history, economics, socioeconomics, sociology, public health, and psychology, among others.

Contents 1 Etymology 2 Some Auxologists 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Etymology

Auxology: aux-, pertaining to growth, from Greek auxē, "to increase"; -o-, generic phoenetic combining form, here denoting relationship to growth, stimulation, or acceleration; -logy, pertaining to the study of or science of, from Middle English -logie, from Old French, from Latin -logia, from Greek -logiā, from legein, "to speak", and -logos "word", "speech" and "one who deals with", thus "the character or department of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject)".

[edit] Some Auxologists

• Barry Bogin [1] (anthropologist)
• Noel Cameron [2] (pediatrician)
• J. W. Drukker [3] (economist, historian, ergonomist)
• Stanley Engerman [4] (economist)
• Robert Fogel [5] (economist)
• Theo Gasser [6] (statistician, human biologist)
• Francis E. Johnston [7] (anthropologist)
• John Komlos [8] (economist, anthropometric historian)
• Gregory Livshits [9] (human biologist)
• Robert Margo [10] (economist)
• Alex F. Roche [11] (pediatrician)
• Lawrence M. Schell [12] (anthropologist)
• Nevin Scrimshaw [13] (nutritionist)
• Anne Sheehy (human biologist)
• Richard Steckel [14] (economist, anthropometric historian)
• Pak Sunyoung [15] (anthropologist)
• James M. Tanner [16] (pediatrician)
• Vincent Tassenaar [17] (historian)
• Lucio Vinicius [18] (anthropologist, human biologist)
• Joerg Baten [19] (economist, anthropometric historian)

[edit] See also

• Nature versus nurture
• Human variability
• Human development (biology)
• Human biology
• Standard of living
• Quality of life
• Malnutrition
• Human height
• Human weight
• Socioeconomics

[edit] External links

• International Association for Human Auxology
• The Height Gap (The New Yorker)
• A Tall Story for Our Time (Time Magazine)
• Tall Tales: New Approaches to the Standard of Living (Oberlin Alumni Magazine)
• The tall and short of it - range of heights in human demonstrates plasticity of human species (Discover)

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