The only publication to cover biological, biomedical and biocultural approaches in studying human biology and human development
1. Human growth curve, canalization and catch-up growth 2. Growth in Infancy and childhood 3. Adolescence : somatic growth and sex differences 4. Puberty 5. Endocrine control of growth 6. Nutrition and growth 7. Genomics and Epigenetics 8. Genetic epidemiology of growth and development 9. Social and economic effects on growth 10. Environmental effects on growth 11. Evolution of human growth 12. Developmental origins and human growth and senescence 13. Growth, proportionality and health 14. Physical activity and human growth 15. Brain and neurological development 16. Saltation and Stasis 17. Endocrine disorders of growth 18. Body composition 19. The measurement of human growth 20. The assessment of maturation 21. Growth references and standards
Noel Cameron spent from 1984 to 1997 as Associate (1987) and then
Full Professor of Anatomy and Human Biology (1994) in the
Department of Anatomy of the University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa. He returned to the UK in 1997 as Professor of Human Biology
at his alma mater, Loughborough University. He was made a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Biology in 1998 for his significant
contribution to research in human biology.
Dr. Cameron is Secretary General of the International Society for
the Study of Human Growth and Clinical Auxology (ISGA), and
President of the European Anthropological Association. He is also
an Honorary Research Associate of the Evolutionary Studies
Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He
was awarded the Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from Loughborough
University in 2018 for his significant contribution to knowledge in
human growth and development. Lawrence M. Schell is a Professor of
Anthropology, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the State
University of New York in Albany, New York. His research concerns
the interrelationship between biology and culture and focuses on
biological responses to contemporary urban environments. Dr. Schell
has three current research projects. One looks at the effect of
lead on child physical and cognitive development in Albany, NY. The
second project seeks to address the growing concern about the
effect of certain pollutants on sexual and physical development.
The third study examines the relationship of pollutants to the
reproductive health of Akwesasne women who are concerned that
pollution exposure may have damaged their ability to have children.
He has published over 65 articles and reviews, including several
reviews on urbanism, pollution and child health. He received his
Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of
Pennsylvania; his B.A. from Oberlin College.
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