Auxology

Auxology

Auxology, sometimes called Auxanology (from Greek _gr. αὔξω, "auxō", or _gr. αὐξάνω, "auxanō", "growth"; and _gr. -λογία, "-logia"), 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.

Some auxologists

* Joerg Baten [http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/wwl/baten.html] (economist, anthropometric historian)
* Barry Bogin [http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/behsci/anthro/BoginCV/] (anthropologist)
* Noel Cameron [http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sses/institutes/iys/pages/staff/cameron.html] (pediatrician, anthropologist)
* J. W. Drukker [http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/onderzoeker/PRS1235102/] (economist, historian, ergonomist)
* Stanley Engerman [http://www.econ.rochester.edu/Faculty/Engerman.html] (economist)
* Robert Fogel [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/fogel.htm] (economist)
* Theo Gasser [http://www.unizh.ch/biostat/People/gasser/] (statistician, human biologist)
* Michael Healy (statistician)
* Francis E. Johnston [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~fjohnsto/] (anthropologist)
* John Komlos [http://www.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/ls_komlos/komlos.html] (economist, anthropometric historian)
* Gregory Livshits [http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/medicine/researcher.asp?id=acdehbcck] (human biologist)
* Robert Margo [http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Econ/faculty/Margo/margohome.html] (economist)
* Alex F. Roche [http://www.med.wright.edu/lhrc/fac/afr.html] (pediatrician)
* Lawrence M. Schell [http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/schell.htm] (anthropologist)
* Nevin Scrimshaw [http://www.inffoundation.org/bio/nevin_bio.html] (nutritionist)
* Anne Sheehy (human biologist)
* Richard Steckel [http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/rsteckel/] (economist, anthropometric historian)
* Pak Sunyoung [http://www.anthropology.or.kr/english/en_05(8).htm] (anthropologist)
* James M. Tanner [http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/] (pediatrician)
* Vincent Tassenaar [http://odur.let.rug.nl/~tassen/Tassenaar.html] (historian)
* Lucio Vinicius [http://www.human-evol.cam.ac.uk/Members/Vinicius/Vinicius.htm] (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
* Anthropometric history
*Rod Usher

External links

* [http://www.auxologia.org/ International Association for Human Auxology]
* [http://www.econhist.vwl.lmu.de/covereu.html A Tall Story for Our Time (Time Magazine)]
* [http://www.oberlin.edu/alummag/oamcurrent/oam_may99/tall.html Tall Tales: New Approaches to the Standard of Living (Oberlin Alumni Magazine)]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n2_v19/ai_20159533 The tall and short of it - range of heights in human demonstrates plasticity of human species (Discover)]


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