Biology:Anthropometric history

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Short description: Study of the history of human height and weight


Anthropometric history is the study of the history of human height and weight.[1][2] The concept was formulated in 1989 although it has historical roots.[3] In the 1830s, Adolphe Quetelet and Louis R. Villermé studied the physical stature of populations.[4][5] In the 1960s, French historians analyzed the relationship between socio-economic variables and human height.[6] Anthropometric history was established as field of study in the late 1970s when economic historians Robert Fogel, John Komlos,[7][8] Richard Steckel and other academics began to study the history of human physical stature and its relationship to economic development.[9] A branch of cliometrics, it uses trends and cross-sectional patterns in human physical stature to understand historical processes.[10][11]

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References

  1. ↑ Tanner, JM (1981). A history of the study of human growth. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521134026. OCLC 755936888. https://archive.org/details/historyofstudyof0000tann. 
  2. ↑ Snowdon, Brian (2005). "Measures of Progress and Other Tall Stories: From income to anthropometrics - World Economics" (in en). World Economics 6 (2): pp. 87–136. https://www.worldeconomics.com/Journal/Papers/Measures%20of%20Progress%20and%20%20Other%20Tall%20Stories.details?ID=209. 
  3. ↑ KOMLOS, JOHN (1989). Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. Princeton University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zv6wj. 
  4. ↑ Villermé, LR (1829). Mémoire sur la taille de l'homme en France. Annales d'Hygiène Publique et de Médicine Légale. 1. pp. 551–559. 
  5. ↑ Quetelet, A (1831). Recherches sur la loi de croissance de l'homme. Annales d'Hygiène Publique et de Médicine Légale. 6. pp. 89–113. 
  6. ↑ Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy; Bernageau, Nicole; Pasquet, Yvonne (1969). "Le Conscrit et l'ordinateur: Perspectives de recherches sur les archives militaires du XIXe siècle francais.". Studi Storici 10 (2): 260–308. 
  7. ↑ Komlos, John (1987). "The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America". The Journal of Economic History 47 (4): 897–927. doi:10.1017/S002205070004986X. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2122037. 
  8. ↑ Komlos, John (1998). "Shrinking in a Growing Economy? The Mystery of Physical Stature during the Industrial Revolution" (in en). The Journal of Economic History 58 (3): 779–802. doi:10.1017/S0022050700021161. ISSN 1471-6372. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/abs/shrinking-in-a-growing-economy-the-mystery-of-physical-stature-during-the-industrial-revolution/40F3D0A658DFBA41CE9CBDB1D9B75FEB. 
  9. ↑ Fogel, Robert W.; Engerman, Stanley L.; Trussell, James; Floud, Roderick; Pope, Clayne L.; Wimmer, Larry T. (1978). "The Economics of Mortality in North America, 1650–1910: A Description of a Research Project" (in en). Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 11 (2): 75–108. doi:10.1080/01615440.1978.9955221. ISSN 0161-5440. PMID 11614602. 
  10. ↑ Snowdon, Brian (2005). "Measures of Progress and Other Tall Stories: From income to anthropometrics" (in en). World Economics 6 (2): pp. 87–136. https://ideas.repec.org/a/wej/wldecn/209.html. 
  11. ↑ Komlos, John (1987). "The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America" (in en). The Journal of Economic History 47 (4): 897–927. doi:10.1017/S002205070004986X. ISSN 1471-6372. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/abs/height-and-weight-of-west-point-cadets-dietary-change-in-antebellum-america/16FF035B96821A3848F1A13E87741F61. 



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