ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to collect data on children in the late 1960s, when many of the changes fully observable were much more weakly expressed. It looks at indicators of growth and development on a sample of children and youths and consider the relationship these physical indicators may have with demographic variables, kinship networks, and behavioral profiles of individual children. The chapter considers children under six years separately because children in this age group had better BMIDiff scores and higher variance in comparison with older children. It examines the pattern and variation in Ju/'hoan growth and development in childhood and adolescence and the comparison of the !Kung statistics with those from other populations. The chapter explores the possibility that factors of kinship and family composition might predict children's nutritional status. It also looks at differences in the behaviors of children for an indication of low energy expenditure and found a modest correlation between the nutritional indicator and level of physical activity.
