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Victor V. Bounak and modern human auxology

Godina E.Z.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Godina E.Z., D.Sc., prof., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0692-420X, e-mail: egodina11@gmail.com

Abstract

Review. The results of modern auxological investigations are discussed in the light of previous research, in the first place, in the context of the works and ideas of the great Russian anthropologist Professor Victor V. Bounak (1891–1979). Bounak was the founding father of modern anthropology in Russia, the 2nd, after his tutor Dmitry N. Anuchin, Director of the Institute of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. This article was presented at the Jubilee Conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Research Institute of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, on the 29th of November 2012. The main accent is made on the research of secular changes as one of the key auxological problems. The study of the influence of socioeconomic factors is also of great importance as they become the major source of secular variations in growth. In recent year as was shown by the researchers of Auxology Department of the Institute of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, the secular changes revealed the trend towards obesity in Russian children and adolescents and the ongoing social stratification in Russian society.

Keywords

anthropology, physical/biological anthropology, auxology, V.V. Bounak, growth and development, physical development, secular trend, socioeconomic factors, obesity

Цит.: Godina E.Z. Victor V. Bounak and modern human auxology // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2013; 1/2013; с. 19-29