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7 - What Makes People Grow?

Love, Hope, Community Effects, and Strategic Growth in the Context of Environmental Factors Influencing Human Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2020

Barry Bogin
Barry Bogin
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Loughborough University
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The conventional wisdom that human growth is optimal when adequate amounts of all nutrients, minimal infection, and adequate psychosocial stimulation are available is too simplistic. The extensive interacting networks of material, biological, social, and ideological variables that comprise human life give rise to a hugely complicated matrix of factors that shape human phenotypes. There is no single optimal pattern of growth. There are ranges of possibilities with a multitude of local optima within the developmental matrix. The importance of social-economic-political-emotional (SEPE) factors is discussed in relation to new hypotheses of community effects and strategic growth adjustments on human development.

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community effectsstrategic growthnutrientsinfectionpsychosocial stressinterventionsfaminesstarvationmilkvitamin D3seasonalitymigrationurbanizationSEPE
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Patterns of Human Growth , pp. 403 - 489
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • What Makes People Grow?
  • Barry Bogin, Loughborough University
  • Book: Patterns of Human Growth
  • Online publication: 13 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379977.008
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  • What Makes People Grow?
  • Barry Bogin, Loughborough University
  • Book: Patterns of Human Growth
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379977.008
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  • What Makes People Grow?
  • Barry Bogin, Loughborough University
  • Book: Patterns of Human Growth
  • Online publication: 13 November 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379977.008
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