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Overview

Barry Bogin is a researcher affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, specializing in the field of Medicine with a focus on human growth and development. Their work spans several interconnected domains, emphasizing the biological, environmental, and social factors that influence growth patterns and public health outcomes.

Their main research topics include:

  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Body Composition Measurement Techniques
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Barry Bogin has produced multiple recent papers with a variety of focuses. Notable publications include:

  • Social-Economic-Political-Emotional (SEPE) factors regulate human growth (2021), published in Human Biology and Public Health
  • Fear, violence, inequality, and stunting in Guatemala (2021), published in American Journal of Human Biology
  • Maternal Height-standardized Prevalence of Stunting in 67 Low- and Middle-income Countries (2021), published in Journal of Epidemiology
  • COVID-19, crisis, and emotional stress: A biocultural perspective of their impact on growth and development for the next generation (2020), published in American Journal of Human Biology
  • Bergmann's rule is a "just-so" story of human body size (2022), published in Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barry Bogin include:

  • Michael Hermanussen
  • Christiane Scheffler
  • Sławomir Kozieł
  • Carlos Varea
  • Maria Inês Varela-Silva

Their research is regularly published in several key venues, among which are:

  • American Journal of Human Biology
  • Human Biology and Public Health
  • Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
  • Anthropologischer Anzeiger
  • Annals of Human Biology

In addition to journal articles, Barry Bogin has contributed to book literature. One such publication is Patterns of Human Growth, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Barry Bogin's subfields of research focus primarily on areas such as:

  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Physiology

Best Publications

  • Patterns of human growth

    Barry Bogin

  • Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa

    Lee R Berger;John Hawks;Darryl J de Ruiter;Steven E Churchill

  • Evolution of the human life cycle

    Barry A. Bogin;B. Holly Smith

  • Evolutionary hypotheses for human childhood

    Barry A. Bogin

  • Leg Length, Body Proportion, and Health: A Review with a Note on Beauty

    Barry Bogin;Maria Inês Varela-Silva

  • Evolutionary perspective on human growth

    Barry Bogin

  • Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children

    Barry A. Bogin;P. Smith;A. B. Orden;M. I. Varela Silva

  • OBESITY AND THE RATE OF TIME PREFERENCE: IS THERE A CONNECTION?

    John Komlos;Patricia K. Smith;Barry Bogin

  • The growth of humanity

    Barry Bogin

  • Language and life history: a new perspective on the development and evolution of human language.

    John L. Locke;Barry Bogin

  • Are time preference and body mass index associated? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.

    Patricia K. Smith;Barry Bogin;David Bishai

  • Plasticity, political economy, and physical growth status of Guatemala Maya children living in the United States.

    Barry A. Bogin;James Loucky

  • Life history trade‐offs in human growth: Adaptation or pathology?

    Barry Bogin;Maria Inês Varela Silva;Luis Rios

  • Eight thousand years of economic and political history in Latin America revealed by anthropometry.

    B Bogin;R Keep

  • Rapid morphological change in living humans: implications for modern human origins.

    Barry Bogin;Luis Rios

  • Influence of maternal stature, pregnancy age, and infant birth weight on growth during childhood in Yucatan, Mexico: a test of the intergenerational effects hypothesis.

    Maria Inês Varela-Silva;Hugo Azcorra;Federico Dickinson;Barry Bogin

  • Childhood, adolescence, and longevity: A multilevel model of the evolution of reserve capacity in human life history.

    Barry Bogin

  • Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective

    Sara Stinson;Barry Bogin;Dennis O'Rourke

  • The nutritional dual-burden in developing countries--how is it assessed and what are the health implications?

    Maria Inês Varela-Silva;Federico Dickinson;Hannah Wilson;Hugo Azcorra

  • Nutritional interventions for preventing stunting in children (Birth to 59 months) living in urban slums in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC)

    Sophie M Goudet;Barry A Bogin;Nyovani J Madise;Paula L Griffiths

  • Author response: Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa

    Lee R Berger;John Hawks;John Hawks;Darryl J de Ruiter;Darryl J de Ruiter;Steven E Churchill;Steven E Churchill

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula L. Griffiths
Paula L. Griffiths Loughborough University
Nyovani Madise
Nyovani Madise University of Southampton
James M. Swanson
James M. Swanson University of California, Irvine
Darryl J. de Ruiter
Darryl J. de Ruiter Texas A&M University
Steven E. Churchill
Steven E. Churchill Duke University
John Komlos
John Komlos Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Petra Meier
Petra Meier University of Glasgow
Christian Pfister
Christian Pfister University of Bern
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
David M. Bishai
David M. Bishai Johns Hopkins University

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