Auxology

Auxology, in this context, is a generic term for the study of human growth. It has become a multi-disciplinary science involving medicine (pediatrics, growth and development, endocrinology, physiology, and since the body is a system, everything else), nutrition, genetics, anthropology, anthropometry, history, economics, socioeconomics.

Auxologists

  • Barry Bogin (anthropologist)
  • J. W. Drukker (economist/historian)
  • Stanley Engerman (economist)
  • Robert Fogel (economist)
  • John Komlos (economist, anthropometric historian)
  • Robert Margo (economist)
  • Richard Steckel (economist)
  • Nevin Scrimshaw (nutrionist)
  • Pak Sun-young (anthropologist)
  • Vincent Tassenaar (historian)

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