Human Growth and Development, Third Edition provides a comprehensive volume covering the biology of human growth and the genetic, endocrine, environmental, nutritional, and socio-economic factors that contribute towards its full expression. Human Growth and Development continues to be a valuable resource for researchers, professors and graduate students across the interdisciplinary area of human development. For the new edition, updates are made to all fourteen of the "core chapters" of the book which form the essential reading for a comprehensive understanding of human growth and development. Additionally, new special topics are covered including the interpretation of recently found sub-adult fossils that expand our understanding of the evolution of human growth and a discussion of the early pattern of growth and development as the developmental origins of risk for non-communicable diseases of adulthood.

Human Growth and Development, Third Edition includes contributions from the well-known experts in the field and is the most reputable, comprehensive resource available.

1. The pattern of human growth 2. Growth in infancy and childhood 3. Childhood and juvenile growth 4. Adolescence 5. Puberty 6. Endocrine control of growth 7. Nutrition and Growth 8. Genetics and genetic epidemiology of growth and development 9. Social and Economic effects on growth 10. Environmental effects on growth 11. The measurement of human growth 12. Assessment of maturation 13. Growth modelling 14. Growth references and standards

Special topics 1. The evolution of human growth 2. Early environments and adult health 3. Physical activity and growth 4. Biological models of human growth 5. Body composition and obesity 6. Epigenetics and growth