Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and Maturation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Methodological Aspects of Growth Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Measurement of Human Growth: A Historical Review

      • L. D. Voss

      Pages 3-15

   3. Individual Physical Growth Models and Biological Parameters of Japanese

      • T. Shohoji, T. Sumiya

      Pages 17-32

   4. Smoothing Centile Curves of Height of Basque Boys and Girls by the Application of the LMS-Method

      • J. Rosique, L. San Martín, J. R. Fernández-López, I. Salces, E. Rebato, A. Vinagre et al.

      Pages 33-43

   5. A New International Growth Reference for Young Children

      • M. de Onis, C. G. Victora, C. Garza, E. A. J. R. Frongillo, T. Cole

      Pages 45-53

   6. Fels and Tanner-Whitehouse Skeletal Ages of School Children 7–13 Years in Oaxaca, Mexico

      • M. E. Peña Reyes, R. M. Malina

      Pages 55-65

   7. Assessment of Childhood and Adolescents Body Composition: A Practical Guide

      • A. Pietrobelli, M. Heo, M. S. Faith

      Pages 67-75

3. Genetic and Environmental Factors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Genetics of Complex Traits with Particular Attention to Fat Patterning

      • D. C. Rao, P. P. Majumder

      Pages 79-89

   3. Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Distribution in 7- to 16-Year Old Boys of Calcutta in Relation to Socio-Economic Level

      • E. Rebato, J. Rosique, A. Pietrobelli, M. Chatterjee, S. Chatterjee, R. Saha et al.

      Pages 91-108

   4. Dentofacial Morphology, Growth and Genetics: A Study of Australian Aborigines

      • T. Brown, G. Townsend

      Pages 109-122

   5. Riddles in Human Development Patterns: A Few Family Case Study

      • R. D. Singh

      Pages 123-128

   6. Nutrition in Venezuela at the end of the Millennium

      • M. López-Blanco

      Pages 129-135

   7. Thoughts on Secular Trends in Growth And Development

      • P. B. Eveleth

      Pages 137-145

   8. Secular Trends and Longterm Serial Growth Studies

      • A. F. Roche, B. Towne

      Pages 147-157

   9. Secular Trends in Body Height — Indicator of General Improvement In Living Conditions or of a Change in Specific Factors?

      • M. Henneberg

      Pages 159-167

   10. Patterns of Growth and Scholastic Performance — A Case Study of the Associated Factors

       • K. Visweswara Rao, N. Balakrishna, S. Veena

       Pages 169-177

   11. Mental Ability and Cognitive Thinking in Relation to Sex, Pubertal Stage and Socio-Economic Background

       • G. Tanner-Lindgren

       Pages 179-201

4. Population Differences in Growth

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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One morning in 1969, out of the blue, I received a letter which both distressed and astonished me. It was from a Prof. S. R. Das in Calcutta, who requested me to accept, for eventual analysis, a mountain of anthropometric data he had accumulated, as he was ill and did not expect to survive to analyse it himself. The data provided the astonishment; twenty-two anthropometric characters recorded every six months or a year, over a period of 14 years, in a mixed longitudinal study of some 560 children, aged six months to twenty years. Most were in families with siblings also in the study, and every child was measured every time by S. R. Das himself. The archive was unique, combining the personal anthropometry of R. H. Whitehouse in the Harpenden Growth Study and the family approach of the Fels Growth Study. This was a study of which neither I, nor anyone of my acquaintance, had heard. Even in India, Prof. Das' work was scarcely known. It turned out Das was a scholarly man, quiet and unassuming, absolutely committed to his Sarsuna-Barisha Growth Study,just the obverse of the professional showman. Clearly this was not a request I could refuse, although I already had in hand enough projects to occupy Siva himself.

• assessment
• biological
• development
• distribution
• dynamics
• environment
• genetics
• growth
• iron
• morphology
• nutrition
• paper
• population
• sex
• tissue

This volume covers the whole of the research area in human growth and development. Topics include: the history of the study of human growth, the modeling of individual growth curves, the construction of population growth reference curves, growth as a measure of population well-being, secular trend, and the relation between mental and physical development. The book is for students, researchers and practitioners in the field of anthropology, human biology, auxology, human nutrition, education, public health and paediatrics.

• Anthroplogy and Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

  Parasmani Dasgupta

• Laboratory of Anthropogenetics, Free University Brussels, Belgium

  Roland Hauspie

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