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                          N e w s l e t t e r                                                                                            December 2024

Dear friends, dear members of our Auxological Society,

it is time again to spread some news. We just finished this year’s Soiree at Krobielowice castle with participants from Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Turkey, Japan and Germany. The meeting was well organized and very inspiring, with papers on the impact of politics on secular trends in body height; the differences in weight and BMI distributions in traditional or “non-modern” populations; body height in Turkish migrants depending on their perception of social belonging; height and integration in proximity networks among Hadza women; seasonality of births, marriages and deaths in the 19^th century; birth order effects on birth weight and early growth; archeological findings on body height and status among the early medieval Avars, a medieval ethnic group at the Pannonian Basin of Central and Eastern Europe; the effects of colonialism on health of the Xavante, an indigenous ethnic group in Brazil; physical fitness in overweight and obese Polish children and adolescents; adiposity, muscularity, and nutrition in Turkish migrants in Germany and in the Netherlands; the impact of biological age on physical fitness in young ice hockey players; a new body proportion chart; nutrition and eating habits in adult women with autism spectrum disorder; artificial intelligence for diagnostic approaches in type 2 diabetes; and on upward social mobility and social variation in height in Mongolian students of Ulaanbaatar.

At the assembly of the Society we discussed some financial details and decided to vary the location of our soiree and have our next Soiree take place in the Czech Republic, organized by Martin Musalek. Thank you, Martin !

Please remember: Next year’s International Student Summer School will be July 4^th to July 12^th 2025 (see the invitation https://www.human-biology-and-public-health.org/index.php/hbph/summerschool).

Our journal Human Biology and Public Health is still well appreciated, often read and often cited (https://openalex.org/works?page=4&filter=primary_location.source.id%3As4210216485). Please consider it when submitting your next manuscript 😊

And take notice that our new book “Größenwahn” (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-69580-7, yet, only in German) is now online, and also available as print version.

Christiane Scheffler               Michael Hermanussen                                   Slawomir Koziel