Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and Maturation Daniel W AEINLEITUNG1

AEINLEITUNG1

Einfluss auf den Menschen hat

Abstract: In einem Industriestaat

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Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and Maturation Daniel W AEINLEITUNG1One morning in 1969, out of the blue, I received a letter which both distressed and astonished me. It was from a Prof. S. R. Das in Calcutta, who requested me to accept, for eventual analysis, a mountain of anthropometric data he had accumulated, as he was ill and did not expect to survive to analyse it himself. The data provided the astonishment; twenty two anthropometric characters recorded every six months or a year, over a period of 14 years, in a