human development

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Introduction
Types and rates of human growth
Types of growth data
- Boys’ and girls’ height curves
- Different tissues and parts of the body
Development at puberty
- Alterations in growth rate
  - Increase in body size
  - Development of the reproductive organs and secondary sex characteristics
- Normal variations
  - Sex dimorphism
  - Physical and behavioral interaction
  - Larger size and earlier maturation
Hormones and growth

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prenatal development adolescence infant and toddler development emotional development psychological development infancy puberty child development adulthood childhood animal development plant development sleep human evolution birth human genetics gestation human nervous system human eye mental disorder

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Louise Bates Ames

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