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The discipline of human development—known to some as Auxology—tends to be a dynamic enterprise; that is, it deals with the course of growth in living persons after conception, and the stages of that process are approached as temporary and evolving. The temporal aspect is extended when data sets are assembled from an earlier era in order to examine the interaction of social and natural forces on various aspects of development. For example, economic historians have found it useful to employ height and body mass as outcome variables when examining economic change. The heights of males during the Civil War in the United States, and British males and females during the Industrial Revolution are examples (Jordan, Social Indicators Research 29. 183–203, 1993a).
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Jordan, T.E. (2012). Mortality. In: Quality of Life and Mortality Among Children. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4390-8_1
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