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.
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)".Some Auxologists
- Barry Bogin [link] (anthropologist)
- Noel Cameron [link] (pediatrician)
- J. W. Drukker [link] (economist, historian, ergonomist)
- Stanley Engerman [link] (economist)
- Robert Fogel [link] (economist)
- Theo Gasser [link] (statistician, human biologist)
- Francis E. Johnston [link] (anthropologist)
- John Komlos [link] (economist, anthropometric historian)
- Gregory Livshits [link] (human biologist)
- Robert Margo [link] (economist)
- Alex F. Roche [link] (pediatrician)
- Lawrence M. Schell [link] (anthropologist)
- Nevin Scrimshaw [link] (nutritionist)
- Anne Sheehy (human biologist)
- Richard Steckel [link] (economist, anthropometric historian)
- Pak Sunyoung [link] (anthropologist)
- James M. Tanner [link] (pediatrician)
- Vincent Tassenaar [link] (historian)
- Lucio Vinicius [link] (anthropologist, human biologist)
See also
- Nature versus nurture
- Human variability
- Human development (biology)
- Human biology
- Standard of living
- Quality of life
- Malnutrition
- Human height
- Human weight
- Socioeconomics
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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