
Human Growth and Development
Resources
Description
Key Features
- New chapters include the impact of physical activity across childhood and adolescence, information on the evolution of the human growth pattern and the contribution of epigenetics to our understanding of human growth
- Offers the necessary tools to connect human development data with predictive medicine
- Provides extensive depth on content in the form of easily digestible lecture length chapters
Readership
Professors, researchers and advanced students in human biology and development and anthropology
Table of Contents
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 standardsSpecial topics
1. The evolution of human growth
2. Early environments and adult health
3. Physical activity and growth
4. Biological models of human growth
5. Body composition and obesity
6. Epigenetics and growth
Product details
- No. of pages: 592
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: November 18, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780323853620
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128226520