Auxology

Auxology is a meta-term covering the study of all aspects of humanphysical growth; though it is also a fundamental of biologygenerally. Auxology is a highly multi-disciplinary scienceinvolving health sciences/ medicine(pediatrics, general practice, endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, physiology, epidemiology, and to a lesser degree other fields), nutrition, genetics, anthropology, anthropometry, ergonomics, history, economic history, economics, socioeconomics, sociology, public health, and psychology, among others.

Etymology

Auxology: aux-, pertaining to growth, from Greekaux?, "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 -logi?, 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[1](anthropologist)
• Noel Cameron[2](pediatrician)
• J. W. Drukker [3](economist, historian, ergonomist)
• Stanley Engerman[4](economist)
• Robert Fogel[5](economist)
• Theo Gasser [6](statistician, human biologist)
• Francis E. Johnston [7](anthropologist)
• John Komlos[8](economist, anthropometric historian)
• Gregory Livshits [9](human biologist)
• Robert Margo [10](economist)
• Alex F. Roche[11](pediatrician)
• Lawrence M. Schell [12](anthropologist)
• Nevin Scrimshaw[13](nutritionist)
• Anne Sheehy (human biologist)
• Richard Steckel[14](economist, anthropometric historian)
• Pak Sunyoung [15](anthropologist)
• James M. Tanner[16](pediatrician)
• Vincent Tassenaar [17](historian)
• Lucio Vinicius [18](anthropologist, human biologist)

See also

• Nature versus nurture
• Human variability
• Human development
• Human biology
• Standard of living
• Quality of life
• Malnutrition
• Human height
• Human weight

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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