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Anthropol Anz 2012;
69:159-74. [PMID:
22606911 DOI:
10.1127/0003-5548/2012/0133]
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Abstract
Auxology has developed from mere describing child and adolescent growth into a vivid and interdisciplinary research area encompassing human biologists, physicians, social scientists, economists and biostatisticians. The meeting illustrated the diversity in auxology, with the various social, medical, biological and biostatistical aspects in studies on child growth and development.
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