Human Growth and Development

The only resource covering biological, biomedical and biocultural approaches in human biology and human development

Noel Cameron (Edited by), Lawrence Schell (Edited by)

9780128226520, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 22 November 2021

592 pages, 150 illustrations (50 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 3.6 cm, 1.22 kg

Human Growth and Development, Third Edition provides a comprehensive volume covering the biology of human growth and the genetic, endocrine, environmental, nutritional, and socio-economic factors that contribute towards its full expression. Human Growth and Development continues to be a valuable resource for researchers, professors and graduate students across the interdisciplinary area of human development. For the new edition, updates are made to all fourteen of the "core chapters" of the book which form the essential reading for a comprehensive understanding of human growth and development. Additionally, new special topics are covered including the interpretation of recently found sub-adult fossils that expand our understanding of the evolution of human growth and a discussion of the early pattern of growth and development as the developmental origins of risk for non-communicable diseases of adulthood.

1. The pattern of human growth 2. Growth in infancy and childhood 3. Childhood and juvenile growth 4. Adolescence 5. Puberty 6. Endocrine control of growth 7. Nutrition and Growth 8. Genetics and genetic epidemiology of growth and development 9. Social and Economic effects on growth 10. Environmental effects on growth 11. The measurement of human growth 12. Assessment of maturation 13. Growth modelling 14. Growth references and standards

Subject Areas: Human biology [PSX], Developmental biology [PSC], Pathology [MMF], Physiology [MFG]