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📈 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.…

Screen time and pubertal development: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain how screen time may affect pubertal development.To quantify the association between screen time exposure and timing of pubertal onset in children.We...

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👋 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
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📚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/iah…

Biological and Environmental Contributors to Child Growth and Health

Explore the article collection: Biological and Environmental Contributors to Child Growth and Health. Published in Annals of Human Biology.

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📏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.…

Somatotype affects lean body mass estimation with bioelectrical impedance analysis in young athletes

The accuracy of body composition assessments with bioelectrical impedance (BIA) based devices may be affected, besides the well-known factors (e.g. hydration status), by factors which are related t...

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🗣️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.…

Whose health? Whose truth? Navigating the “Make America Healthy Again” – public health divide

Published in Annals of Human Biology (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2025)

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📚 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/iah…

Human Biology, Climate Change and Sustainability

Explore the article collection: Human Biology, Climate Change and Sustainability. Published in Annals of Human Biology.

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

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the driving force in human evolution.

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📏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.…

Facial shapes in Frankfurt Horizontal and natural head positions: a methodological study

Head orientation during photography can distort facial shape, but this is rarely considered in cross-population studies focusing on facial morphology and its perception.To assess how head positioni...

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📈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.…

Comparative effects of growth hormone, testosterone, and aromatase inhibitors on height gain in...

Idiopathic short stature (ISS) is defined as height more than two standard deviations below the mean for age and sex, without an identifiable pathological cause. Pharmacologic options such as growt...

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📏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.…

Development of disease-specific growth charts for Argentine Prader-Willi syndrome without growth...

Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a complex genetic disorder characterised by infantile hypotonia, early-onset obesity, intellectual disability, hypopigmentation, small hands and feet, short stature, ...

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🦠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.…

Altered gut microbiota composition and feeding behaviours in children with Autism Spectrum Disord...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a prevalent condition with poorly understood aetiology. Studies indicate that children with ASD exhibit more gastrointestinal alterations, nutritional deficiencies...

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📈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.…

Site and sex specific bone mineral content, and density trajectories from adolescence through to 15...

Relatively, little is known about bone parameter trajectories after attainment of peak bone mass (PBM).To investigate the individual and mean trajectories of bone mineral content (BMC) and areal bo...

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New article from PBMAS just came on line. Previously we have reported growth of bone from childhood into adolescence and through emerging adulthood in the same individuals. Now we describe bone growth during young adulthood up to 35 years of age. doi.org/10.1080/03014460.202…
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📚 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/iah…

The Growth and Development of Sub-Adult Hominins: Multidisciplinary Approaches

Explore the article collection: The Growth and Development of Sub-Adult Hominins: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Published in Annals of Human Biology.

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🚨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.… @SocStudyHumBiol
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📚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/a…
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📏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.…

Secular trends in BMI, excess weight and body fat skinfolds in Peruvian children living at high...

There is limited evidence on secular trends in adiposity among high-altitude children.To describe secular trends in body mass index (BMI), excess weight and body fat skinfolds (SKF) among Peruvian ...

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📈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.…

Reference growth charts for height and weight, for the UAE, the UAEMCGS 2 study

Growth charts are the most commonly used tool for evaluating the development and nutrition of children. The UAE had its first chart produced 30 years ago.The goal of the present study was to derive...

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🌎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.…

Intergenerational effects of climate disasters: trimester of pregnancy when a hurricane hits...

Climate disasters have been tied to prenatal stress and pregnancy outcomes. However, it is unclear if these outcomes are influenced by the stage of foetal development when the disaster hits.To comp...

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👍SOCIAL MEDIA AHB will continue to interact on X but can now also be found on LinkedIn (simply search the journal name) and BlueSky @annalshumanbio.bsky.social
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