Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Gorbacheva Anna K., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5201-7128, e-mail: angoria@yandex.ru
The variability of growth processes of different groups of infants from birth to one year of age is analyzed. 26 ethnic and territorial groups of former USSR of late 1960th – early 1970th, urban cohorts mainly, are reviewed. The source of material is the official methodical handbook, including the data on physical development of children and teenagers from urban and rural regions of USSR. The dynamics of standardized values of body length and mass, head and chest circumferences is compared. The structure of variation of four body dimensions between ethnic groups at birth doesn’t coinside with the same picture at 12 months of age. More or less stable ethnic growth channel for body length and mass is not settled until 6 months of age. For head and chest circumferences, describing proportionality, obviously outside the regarded period. The level of differences of body length and mass between groups increases from birth to 12 months from 1 to 2 standard deviations. The level of differences of head and chest circumferences decreases quite on the contrary. The essential similarity of growth dynamics of Russian infants of different territorial groups with different climatic and geographical circumstances is revealed. Infants, dwelling in emphasized urban environment, Moscow and Murmansk, have most intensive growth increments of body length through the period in the case of Moscow cohort and steady acceleration of body length and mass through the period in the case of Murmansk cohort. Extreme ecological overload of environment in Donetsk region causes the significant retardation of growth of body length and head circumference of Ukraine infants in the region. Somatic peculiarities of ethnic and territorial groups is gradually shaping through the period of infancy. Body length and mass dynamics on one hand and head and chest circumferences dynamics on the other goes geterochronously. Climatic and geographical factors are secondary to ethnic specificity in the process of forming of between group variability. The level of anthropogenic stress has a significant influence on between group variability in infancy.
anthropology, auxology, infants, ethnic and territorial groups, physical development, climatic and geographical factors, anthropogenic load
Цит.: Gorbacheva A.K. The peculiarities of growth processes of infants in different ecological conditions // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2015; 2/2015; с. 52-63
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