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.
Human Growth and Development, Third Edition includes contributions from the well-known experts in the field and is the most reputable, comprehensive resource available.
1. Introduction - p. xxiii 2. Chapter 1. The pattern of human growth - p. 1 3. Chapter 2. Prenatal and infant growth - p. 23 4. Chapter 3. Child and juvenile growth - p. 73 5. Chapter 4. Adolescent growth - p. 101 6. Chapter 5. Puberty - p. 125 7. Chapter 6. Endocrine control of growth - p. 155 8. Chapter 7. Nutrition and growth - p. 177 9. Chapter 8. The genetic epidemiology of growth and development - p. 203 10. Chapter 9. Social and economic effects on growth - p. 245 11. Chapter 10. Environmental effects on growth - p. 261 12. Chapter 11. The measurement of human growth - p. 317 13. Chapter 12. Assessment of maturation - p. 347 14. Chapter 13. Modeling growth curves for epidemiology - p. 371 15. Chapter 14. Growth references and standards - p. 391 16. Chapter 15. Evolution of human growth - p. 425 17. Chapter 16. Early environments, developmental plasticity, and chronic degenerative disease - p. 449 18. Chapter 17. Physical activity and growth - p. 469 19. Chapter 18. Biological models of human growth - p. 491 20. Chapter 19. Body composition during growth and development - p. 517 21. Index - p. 547
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.
Human Growth and Development, Third Edition includes contributions from the well-known experts in the field and is the most reputable, comprehensive resource available.
1. Introduction - p. xxiii 2. Chapter 1. The pattern of human growth - p. 1 3. Chapter 2. Prenatal and infant growth - p. 23 4. Chapter 3. Child and juvenile growth - p. 73 5. Chapter 4. Adolescent growth - p. 101 6. Chapter 5. Puberty - p. 125 7. Chapter 6. Endocrine control of growth - p. 155 8. Chapter 7. Nutrition and growth - p. 177 9. Chapter 8. The genetic epidemiology of growth and development - p. 203 10. Chapter 9. Social and economic effects on growth - p. 245 11. Chapter 10. Environmental effects on growth - p. 261 12. Chapter 11. The measurement of human growth - p. 317 13. Chapter 12. Assessment of maturation - p. 347 14. Chapter 13. Modeling growth curves for epidemiology - p. 371 15. Chapter 14. Growth references and standards - p. 391 16. Chapter 15. Evolution of human growth - p. 425 17. Chapter 16. Early environments, developmental plasticity, and chronic degenerative disease - p. 449 18. Chapter 17. Physical activity and growth - p. 469 19. Chapter 18. Biological models of human growth - p. 491 20. Chapter 19. Body composition during growth and development - p. 517 21. Index - p. 547
