Differential Rate of Growth of the Human Body Parts

Abstract

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 ...