Lack of a secular trend in adult stature in white South African males born between 1954 and 1975

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 54-61

  Louw, G J ^a   Henneberg, M ^b   Jones, Wood ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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