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)
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