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Worldwide variation in human growth

Title
Worldwide variation in human growth / Phyllis B. Eveleth and J.M. Tanner ; foreword by W.H. Chang.
Author
Eveleth, Phyllis B.
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

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Additional Authors
  • Tanner, J. M. (James Mourilyan)
  • Chang, W. H.
Description
xiv, 497 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
International Biological Programme ; 8
Uniform Title
International Biological Programme ; 8.
Subject
  • Children > Growth
  • Children > Anthropometry
  • Anthropometry
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Growth
  • Anthropometry
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Growth
  • anthropometry
  • growth
  • 42.85 physical anthropology
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • Children > Anthropometry
  • Children > Growth
  • Anthropométrie
  • Croissance
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 434-491.
Contents
Introduction to comparative growth studies : methods and standards -- Europeans in Europe -- European descendants in Australasia, Africa and the Americas -- Africians in Africa and the Americas -- Asiatics in Asia and the Americas -- Indo-Mediterraneans of the Near East, North Africa and INdia -- Australian aborigines and Pacific Island peoples -- Rate of maturation : population differences in skeletal, dental and pubertal development -- Genetical influences on growth : family and race comparisons -- Environmental influences on growth -- Selective effects of the biome on growth : high altitudes, polar regions and tropics.
ISBN
  • 0521208068
  • 9780521208062
LCCN
75010042
OCLC
  • ocm02707167
  • 2707167
  • SCSB-327044
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library