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'''Auxanology''' is a meta-term covering the study of all aspects of [[human]] physical [[human development (biology)|growth]]; though it is also a fundamental of [[biology]], generally. Auxology is a highly multi-disciplinary [[science]] involving [[health sciences]] / [[medicine]] ([[pediatrics]], [[General practitioner|general practice]], [[endocrinology]], [[neuroendocrinology]], [[Human physiology|physiology]], [[epidemiology]]), and to a lesser extent: [[nutrition]], [[genetics]], [[anthropology]], [[anthropometry]], [[ergonomics]], [[history]], [[economic history]], [[economics]], [[socioeconomics]], [[sociology]], [[public health]], and [[psychology]], among others.
== Etymology ==
'''Auxanology:''' aux-, pertaining to growth, from [[Greek language|Greek]] auxē, "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 -logiā, 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)".
The name of the plant hormone Auxin (which promotes growth in plants) comes from the same root.
== Some Auxologists ==
* [[Joerg Baten]] [http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/wwl/baten.html] (economist, anthropometric historian)
* [[Barry Bogin]] [http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/behsci/anthro/BoginCV/] (anthropologist)
* [[Noel Cameron]] [http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sses/institutes/iys/pages/staff/cameron.html] (pediatrician)
* J. W. Drukker [http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/onderzoeker/PRS1235102/] (economist, historian, ergonomist)
* [[Stanley Engerman]] [http://www.econ.rochester.edu/Faculty/Engerman.html] (economist)
* [[Robert Fogel]] [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/fogel.htm] (economist)
* Theo Gasser [http://www.unizh.ch/biostat/People/gasser/] (statistician, human biologist)
* [[Michael Healy (statistician)]]
* Francis E. Johnston [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~fjohnsto/] (anthropologist)
* [[John Komlos]] [http://www.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/ls_komlos/komlos.html] (economist, anthropometric historian)
* Gregory Livshits [http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/medicine/researcher.asp?id=acdehbcck] (human biologist)
* Robert Margo [http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Econ/faculty/Margo/margohome.html] (economist)
* [[Alex F. Roche]] [http://www.med.wright.edu/lhrc/fac/afr.html] (pediatrician)
* Lawrence M. Schell [http://www.albany.edu/anthro/fac/schell.htm] (anthropologist)
* [[Nevin Scrimshaw]] [http://www.inffoundation.org/bio/nevin_bio.html] (nutritionist)
* Anne Sheehy (human biologist)
* [[Richard Steckel]] [http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/rsteckel/] (economist, anthropometric historian)
* Pak Sunyoung [http://www.anthropology.or.kr/english/en_05(8).htm] (anthropologist)
* [[James Mourilyan Tanner|James M. Tanner]] [http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/] (pediatrician)
* Vincent Tassenaar [http://odur.let.rug.nl/~tassen/Tassenaar.html] (historian)
* Lucio Vinicius [http://www.human-evol.cam.ac.uk/Members/Vinicius/Vinicius.htm] (anthropologist, human biologist)
== See also ==
* [[Nature versus nurture]]
* [[Human variability]]
* [[Human development (biology)]]
* [[Human biology]]
* [[Standard of living]]
* [[Quality of life]]
* [[Malnutrition]]
* [[Human height]]
* [[Human weight]]
* [[Socioeconomics]]
* [[Anthropometric history]]
*[[Rod Usher]]
== External links ==
* [http://www.auxologia.org/ International Association for Human Auxology]
* [http://www.econhist.vwl.lmu.de/covereu.html A Tall Story for Our Time (Time Magazine)]
* [http://www.oberlin.edu/alummag/oamcurrent/oam_may99/tall.html Tall Tales: New Approaches to the Standard of Living (Oberlin Alumni Magazine)]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n2_v19/ai_20159533 The tall and short of it - range of heights in human demonstrates plasticity of human species (Discover)]
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[[Category:Nutrition]]
[[Category:Genetics]]
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[[Category:General practice]]
[[Category:Health sciences]]
[[Category:Public health]]
[[Category:Malnutrition]]
[[Category:Anthropology]]
[[Category:Socioeconomics]]
[[Category:Economic history]]
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