Modern-day humans go through puberty around the same age as our ancient ancestors did, which has much to teach us about the emergence of adolescence as a life stage.
After analyzing 13 skeletons from Russia, Czechia, and Italy, a new study provides “the first direct evidence for puberty” in Upper Paleolithic adolescents.
The study authors write that the “bioarcheological analysis” has “important implications for the study of the emergence of adolescence within human life histories, as well as for understanding the developmental plasticity of sexual maturation across past and present human populations.” Studying adolescents, specifically, reveals the health and well-being of the populations they are part of more broadly, in addition to giving archaeologists detailed insights about their individual experiences., this research debunks the theory that humans are entering puberty earlier and earlier. In fact, humans basically stayed the same.
However, as variety is the spice of life if not reality, these samples demonstrated the same range. Theexplains that some seemed to have passed through developmental stages at a similar rate to contemporary humans. Still, others lagged due to environmental or pathological reasons that researchers can’t penetrate. A couple had died around 16 years old.
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