“..The age of onset of biological adulthood continues to plunge.
Consider the statistics provided by German researchers.
They found that in 1860 the average age of the onset of puberty in girls was 16.6 years.
In 1920, it was 14.6 – in 1950, 13.1 – 1980, 12.5 – and in 2010 – it had dropped to 10.5.
Similar sets of figures have been reported for boys – albeit with a delay of around a year..”
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Onset of puberty in girls has fallen by five years since 1920 | Society | The Observer.
