AnnalsofHumanBiology

📈 GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT Systematic review & meta-analysis provides insight into the impacts of screentime, & its association with pubertal onset in boys and girls, providing a guide for improving future research in this area. #OpenAccess #HumanBiology tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

👋 Meet our Team! Our Section Editors are an outstanding international team of professionals in the field of Human Biology Alongside editorial duties, they are ambassadors for AHB & make invaluable contributions to our development initiatives! #HumanBiology @SocStudyHumBiol

📚ARTICLE COLLECTION📚 Childhood growth and health are shaped by the physical, social and biological environment. This #OpenAccess article collection is output from the 16th Congress of ISGA in 2024, sponsored by @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/journals/iahb2…

📏RESEARCH METHODS Body composition assessment is widely used to establish factors that can be related to athletic performance. Utczás et al. examine impact of somatotype on body composition estimation in young athletes @SocStudyHumBiol #OpenAccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🗣️COMMENTARY A timely piece for AHB addresses the current public health divide in the U.S., highlighting the need to ‘create space for dialogue rather than continued confrontation’, and how academics can better reach communities their research impacts tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📚 ARTICLE COLLECTION 📚 ‘Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability' Our #OpenAccess collection presents studies that consider #climatechange & sustainability within each of the sub-topics in the AHB and across the globe 🗺️ @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/journals/iahb2…

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests theconversation.com/hobbits-of-flo… via @ConversationUS

📏HUMAN MORPHOLOGY Mezentseva et al. examine how head position affects facial shape & how this varies between populations, highlighting how head position can impact use of photographs in human biology research #OpenAccess #HumanBiology @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📈GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT New! Meta-analysis compares therapeutic strategies to improve height outcomes in 4-16 year olds with ISS, contributing to ongoing debate regarding the most effective pharmacological approach to ISS #OpenAccess @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📏HUMAN BIOLOGY RESEARCH METHODS New article presents country specific growth chart data for children with Prader-Willi syndrome, providing an important tool for monitoring growth in children with rare disease #OpenAccess #HumanBIology @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🦠HUMAN MICROBIOME & METABOLOME NEW PUBLICATION - this pilot study furthers our understanding of the gut microbiome & eating behaviours in ASD children #OpenAccess #HumanBiology @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📈HUMAN GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT New OA publication from @TinTin63 and colleagues describing bone growth during young adulthood up to 35 years of age. #OpenAccess #HumanBiology @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📚 ARTICLE COLLECTION 📚 New OA Collection publishes output from a multidisciplinary workshop discussing current challenges faced in analysing pre-adult fossil remains & providing direction to future studies #OpenAccess #HumanBiology @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/journals/iahb2…

🚨New Publication from @hepaeurope working group members using @I_CA_D data. 📢Read about the optimal awake movement behaviour composition associated with predicted cardiometabolic health outcomes in youth. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @SocStudyHumBiol

📚ARTICLE COLLECTION - 📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Human Conflict, Natural Disasters & Human Biology Does your research fit within this theme? Contact us to discuss submission options, possible APC discounts & contribution to this important article collection. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_collec…

📏HUMAN MORPHOLOGY This recent AHB publication describes positive secular trends in Peruvian children living at high altitude #OpenAccess #HumanBiology @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📈GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT Anthropometric measurements from over 20,000 children are used to update reference growth charts for UAE - 30 years after a standard growth chart was created #OpenAccess #HumanBiology @SocStudyHumBiol tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🌎HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability Important OA study from @HumanBioHowells et al of climate driven weather events on adverse perinatal outcomes #HurricaneFlorence #ClimateChange #OpenAccess #HumanBiology tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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