Prelude Quo Vadis Homo Sapientissime? Transdisciplinary Perspectives of Human Ecology&Napoleon Wolanski 1
Part A Rate of growth:occasional or cyclical (oscillatory)fluctuations 11
1.Does a Child Grow at Night,at Leisure or is it Effect of Physical Movements? More Questions than Answers&Napoleon Wolanski 11
2.Growth measured at short-term intervals in infants,school children and adolescent girls&Silvia Caino,Diana Kelmansky and Horacio Lejarraga 27
3.Monthly Changes in Pubertal Growth in Yucatecan Adolescents Living in Tropical Climate&Napoleon Wolanski,Armando Rojas,Graciela Valentin,Anna Siniarska 34
4.The complexities of the growth process&Horacio Lejarraga 50
5.Jump preserving filters for short-term growth data&Diana Kelmansky 51
Part B Month of birth effect on human growth and development 55
1.Month of Birth Effect on Body Height and Weight in Children Examined on Their Birthdays&Marta Krenz-Niedbala and Elzbieta Alicja Puch 55
2.Month of Birth Effect on Body Mass and Length of Warsaw Newborns and on Weight and Height of Warsaw Schoolgirls&Anna Siniarska 66
3.Seasonal Variations in Birth Weight and Length in a Middle Eastern Population&Ashraf Shalaan and Aly A.EI-Nofely 80
4.Are Birth Weight and Gestational age Affected by Season of birth and Mother'S Origin?The Case of Spain(1996～2007)&Cristina Bernis 89
5.Seasonal Changes of Body Mass Composition in Russian Students&Anna Anisimova(Tretyak) 104
6.Biological rhythms of births and deaths among the local population of Opole city,Poland&Anita Szwed and Romana Pawlinska-Chmara 109
7.Month of birth and longevity&Romana Pawlinska-Chmara 110
Part C Sexual dimorphism as an expression of living conditions and style of life 113
1.Sexual Dimorphism in Generalised,Subcutaneous and Central Adiposity in Relation to Blood Pressure Among the Adult Mising Tribal Population of Assam,North-East India&Mithun Sikdar 113
2.Sexual stature dimorphism in Homo sapiens:an evolutionary response to gender inequality order?&Priscille Touraille 123
3.Decline in sex ratio at birth in Poland as a response to socioeconomic stress-true or false?&Elzbieta Zadzinska,Czeslaw Domanski,Artur Mikulec and Iwona Rosset 139
4.Sexual dimorphism in some birth outcomes of Warsaw neonates and family conditions&Slawomir Koziel and Anna Siniarska 140
5.Gender Divisions—A Case Study of Liangshan Yi people&Liu Shifeng 142