This new, completely revised and updated edition provides a synthesis of the forces that shaped the evolution of the human growth pattern, the biocultural factors that direct its expression, the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that regulate individual development, and the biomathematical approaches that are needed to analyze and interpret human growth. After covering the history, philosophy, and basic biological principles of human development, the book turns to the evolution of the human life cycle. Later chapters explore the physiological, environmental, and cultural reasons for population variation in growth, and the genetic and endocrine factors that regulate individual development, providing a comprehensive explanation for the functional and adaptive significance of human growth patterns. The final chapter integrates all this information into a truly interactive biocultural model of human development.
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"The appealing aspect of this treatise on human growth is the attention given to evolutionary issues." Virginia C. Maiorana, Evolutionary Theory
"...perhaps the first genuinely anthropological text on human growth. Written from an evolutionary point of view, the book attempts to place human growth into an ecological and phylogenetic context...a provocative book, bringing an anthropological perspective to a field long practiced by anthropologists." Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
"The appealing aspect of this treatise on human growth is the attention given to evolutionary issues." Virginia C. Maiorana, Evolutionary Theory
"...perhaps the first genuinely anthropological text on human growth. Written from an evolutionary point of view, the book attempts to place human growth into an ecological and phylogenetic context...a provocative book, bringing an anthropological perspective to a field long practiced by anthropologists." Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
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This comprehensively revised and updated new edition of a successful undergraduate text provides an integrated anthropological, evolutionary and biocultural approach to the study of human growth and development. It retains the unique style and focus of the previous edition, established as the primary text in the subject for all those needing an anthropological and biocultural perspective. Coverage of the evolution of the human life pattern is expanded following rapid and exciting developments in the field since it was brought to prominence in the previous edition.
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good reference on human growth,
This review is from: Patterns of Human Growth (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) (Paperback)
Bogin presents a good, up-to-date overview of human growth that may interest clinicians, anthropologists and human biologists. This work emphasizes a life history perspective, using life stages (e.g. adolescence) as organizing themes. It is also sensitive to the interplay of human growth with sociocultural factors, such as the role of socioeconomic status in growth in a range of societies. Certain contexts in which the study of growth is situated--in comparison with living apes, in light of the human fossil record, in cross-cultural perspective--may appeal to some readers' tastes more than others, but together underpin an admirable synthesis. A few wrinkles could be ironed out, such as a bias toward championing the importance of adolescence; also, some oversimplifications (e.g. the author's statement that hormones are proteins) are too oversimplified. The well-chosen perspectives, clear exposition and extensive list of references cited make this volume suitable to many readers interested in the study of human growth.
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human adolescent growth spurt, rural sedentes, human growth research, pelvic inlet size, juvenile growth stage, milk hypothesis, biocultural nature, weight spurt, primate growth, chorionic placenta, negative secular trend, growth plate region, adolescent spurt, human adolescence, psychosocial short stature, times birth weight, human growth curve, heterochronic process, human puberty, tooth emergence, adult brain size, peak height velocity, adolescent events, biocultural model, dental maturation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, South African, Los Angeles, Old World, World War, Latin American, North America, Guatemala City, Fels Research Institute, Maya of Guatemala, National Child Development Study, New Guinea, New World, Holly Smith, South America, American School, Hong Kong, Both Macaca, East Africa, Leonardo da Vinci, Maya Figure, None Saguinus, Peruvian Indian, The Gambia New!
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- Human Biology by Jane B. Taylor on 5 pages
- Physical Anthropology by Francis E. Johnston on 5 pages
- Human Growth and Development by Borms in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Human Development by F. Falkner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Human Variability and Plasticity (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) by C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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- Human Growth and Development by Noël Cameron on 10 pages
- Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies by Peter Gluckman on 6 pages
- Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and Maturation by Parasmani Dasgupta on 5 pages
- Long-term Consequences of Early Environment: Growth, Development and the Lifespan Developmental Perspective (Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series) by C. Jeya K. Henry on page 21, page 64, and page 87
- Applications of Biological Anthropology to Human Affairs (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) by C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor in Front Matter, page 12, and page 77
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