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Cited by 36Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormonesEvolutionary Psychology and Human BehaviorHuman Health and Disease

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Evolutionary Perspectives on the Onset of Puberty

Worthman, Carol M·1999·Evolutionary Medicine
DOI 10.1093/oso/9780195103557.003.0007
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Abstract Recent human history has witnessed worldwide, ongoing transformations of child growth and development. These changes are best documented by increasing height by age in children and decreasing ages at menarche. Increased size and accelerated maturation have always characterized privileged social groups or classes relative to those less privileged, but commencing about 130 years ago in a few western European countries, a pattern of accelerating development has swept across entire populations (Tanner, 1978, p. 152). Similar, though often more precipitous, shifts continue today in populations around the world, in parallel with socioeconomic and public health changes that strongly alter living conditions. These secular trends to accelerated growth and maturation are amply documented and widely discussed as markers of well-being (Tanner, 1990; van Wierigen, 1986), but their implications for human health have scarcely been explored.

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  • Emerging adulthood in modern societies is part of the historical lengthening of both ends of the pre-reproductive life span of human females (early puberty and late reproduction) in response to improved nutrition and decreased infection.

    “Emerging adulthood in modern societies is part of the historical lengthening of both ends of the pre-reproductive life span of human females (early puberty and late reproduction) in response to improved nutrition and decreased infection (62, 63).”

    From Emerging Adulthood, a Pre-adult Life-History Stage (2020) · cites this paper as [63]

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Authors
Worthman, C. M.
Corresponding author
Worthman, Carol M
ORCID
Worthman, Carol M
Venue
Evolutionary Medicine
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
Published
1999-06-17
Pages
135-163
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780195103557.003.0007
OpenAlex
W4388251437
Cited by
36
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0
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2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2012: 3
FWCI
3.40
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Human Health and Disease
Keywords
puberty onset, secular trends, accelerated maturation, child growth, age at menarche, socioeconomic status, evolutionary perspective, child development

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