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)

See also

• Anthropometry
• Human height
• Nutrition
• Nature_vs._nurture