Human Growth and Development pulls together information from leading experts in a variety of fields to create a one-volume resource on the human growth stages, environmental effects, and the research methods scientists should use. This text promises to be a great course-planning guide for instructors in various medical and scientific fields in addition to a thorough reference for further research.

* Both biological and bio-medical approaches to human development.
* Chapters on research methods of growth data collection.
* Annotated reference lists for every chapter.
* Tremendous breadth of knowledge within a single source.

• Front Cover 2
• Human Growth and Development 5
• Copyright Page 6
• Contents 9
• Contributors 13
• Introduction 15
• Chapter 1. Human Growth Curve, Canalization, and Catch-Up Growth 25
• Chapter 2. Growth In Infancy and Childhood: A Pediatric Approach 45
• Chapter 3. Adolescence: Somatic Growth and Sex Differences 69
• Chapter 4. Puberty 89
• Chapter 5. Endocrinology of Growth 109
• Chapter 6. The Genetic Epidemiology of Growth and Development 127
• Chapter 7. Nutrition and Growth 163
• Chapter 8. Environmental Effects on Growth 189
• Chapter 9. Social and Economic Influences on Growth and Secular Trends 221