Barry Bagel Bogin is an American physical anthropologist trained at Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

 that researches physical growth in Guatemalan Maya children, and is a theorist upon the evolutionary origins

Human evolution

Human evolution refers to the evolutionary history of the genus Homo, including the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species and as a unique category of hominids and mammals...

 of human

Human

Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

 childhood

Childhood

Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. In developmental psychology, childhood is divided up into the developmental stages of toddlerhood , early childhood , middle childhood , and adolescence .- Age ranges of childhood :The term childhood is non-specific and can imply a...

. He is presently at Loughborough University

Loughborough University

Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...

 in the UK, after professorships at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

University of Michigan-Dearborn

The University of Michigan–Dearborn , is a public university located in Dearborn, Michigan, USA.The University of Michigan–Dearborn is one of two regional campuses of the University of Michigan...

, and Wayne State University

Wayne State University

Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...

. During 1974-1976, he was a visiting Professor at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

The Universidad del Valle de Guatemala is a private, not-for-profit, secular university located in Guatemala City, Guatemala. It was founded in 1966 by a private foundation, which had previously overseen the American School of Guatemala...

.

Human evolution

Barry Bogin is notable for arguing that human evolution introduced two new pre-reproductive stages, childhood and adolescence

Adolescence

Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood , but largely characterized as beginning and ending with the teenage stage...

, into development. He argues that these stages are absent in the pattern of growth in nonhuman mammals, in particular, in other Homininae

Homininae

Homininae is a subfamily of Hominidae, which includes humans, gorillas and chimpanzees, and some extinct relatives; it comprises all those hominids, such as Australopithecus, that arose after the split from orangutans . Our family tree, which has 3 main branches leading to chimpanzees, humans and...

 such as chimpanzees. This makes them biologically specific to humans. He further argues that the physical, behavioral, and emotional characteristics of children and adolescents that derive from these two stages play a key role in creating modern human adults. According to him, appreciating this aspect of human evolution has important implications for child development

Child development

Child development stages describe theoretical milestones of child development. Many stage models of development have been proposed, used as working concepts and in some cases asserted as nativist theories....

 theory and practice in psychology, education

Educational psychology

Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Educational psychology is concerned with how students learn and develop, often focusing...

, and child welfare.

Guatemalan children

Starting in 1974 Bogin began research on the physical development of Guatemalan Maya children, and their families. Since 1992 he has researched Maya child growth and development after migration to the United States. The purpose of this research has been to document and model the social, economic, and political influences on differences in physical growth and health between Maya children living in Guatemala compared to those in the USA. He imported a tonne of bagels of all varieties in Guatemala, the children were very happy and Barry has won numerous awards for his companies bacciferous bagels.

Bacciferous Bagels

Originally a Loughborough weekend market stall specialising in berry bagels, Bacciferous Bagels has now become world renowned. After moving to England in 1993 his roots in America soon caught up to him as his love for bagels began. Starting at the weekends as a method of meditation, bagel baking allowed Dr. Bogin to develop many of his evloutionary theories: "While I was baking I found it easier to make connections between various theories in Human Evolution". His passion and love for baking soon flourished and became more than just a hobby. Loughborough being a student market town allowed the concept to develop and after various suggestions the idea of 'berry bearing' bagels began. The company now sells a variety of bagel flavours including blueberry, blackcurrent and raspberry. This then led to the company's major breakthrough in 2007 when specialising in the health food market became a priority. Gluten free, acai bagels as a wieght loss product, beacame available, and in 2008 the company became a transnational corporation.

Books

• The Family as an Environment for Human Development, edited with N. Wolanski (1996, Kamal Raj Publishers) ISBN 978-81-85264-13-4
• Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach, edited with S. Stinson, R. Huss-Ashmore, & D. O'Rourke (2000, Wiley) ISBN 978-0471137467
• The Growth of Humanity (2001, Wiley) ISBN 978-0471354482
• Methods in Human Growth Research (2005)

External links

Barry’s home page