James M. Tanner
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Emeritus Professor of Child Health and Growth, Institute of Child Health, University of London. Author of A History of the Study of Human Growth.
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Human development, the process of growth and change that takes place between birth and maturity. Human growth is far from being a simple and uniform process of becoming taller or larger. As a child grows, there are changes in shape and in tissue composition and distribution. In the newborn infant…
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