Differential Rate of Growth of the Human Body Parts

Abstract

Growth of the human body from birth to adulthood does not proceed as a simple enlargement of the body tissues, organs and parts. It is obvious that body proportions change considerably from the new-born to the grown-up male or female. If we take the sizes of individual body parts of a child at the age of one month as a starting point (zero) and the sizes of the same body parts at the age of 20 years as final (100 percent), we get different rates of growth of individual body measurements at each chosen age.