Patterns of Human Growth

by Barry Bogin

Book Overview

This completely revised edition provides a synthesis of the forces that shaped the evolution of the human growth pattern, the biocultural factors that direct its expression, the intrinsic and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521564387
• ISBN13: 9780521564380
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

good reference on human growth

Bogin presents a good, up-to-date overview of human growth that may interest clinicians, anthropologists and human biologists. This work emphasizes a life history perspective, using life stages (e.g. adolescence) as organizing themes. It is also sensitive to the interplay of human growth with sociocultural factors, such as the role of socioeconomic status in growth in a range of societies. Certain contexts in which the study of growth is situated--in comparison with living apes, in light of the human fossil record, in cross-cultural perspective--may appeal to some readers' tastes more than others, but together underpin an admirable synthesis. A few wrinkles could be ironed out, such as a bias toward championing the importance of adolescence; also, some oversimplifications (e.g. the author's statement that hormones are proteins) are too oversimplified. The well-chosen perspectives, clear exposition and extensive list of references cited make this volume suitable to many readers interested in the study of human growth.