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  2. Adolescence - Wikipedia

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    Neuroscientists often cannot agree precisely on when this developmental period ends or if there is an exact age for the end of brain development. [50] Below the age of about roughly 30, the human brain has been implicated in human behavior and social immaturity.

  3. Coming of age - Wikipedia

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    Particularly in Western societies, modern legal conventions stipulate points around the end of adolescence and the beginning of early adulthood (most commonly 16 though ranging from 14 to 21) when adolescents are generally no longer considered minors and are granted the full rights and responsibilities of an adult.

  4. Human brain development timeline - Wikipedia

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    Cortical white matter increases from childhood (~9 years) to adolescence (~14 years), most notably in the frontal and parietal cortices. [8] Cortical grey matter development peaks at ~12 years of age in the frontal and parietal cortices, and 14–16 years in the temporal lobes (with the superior temporal cortex being last to mature), peaking at about roughly the same age in both sexes ...

  5. Development of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. [7] ... On average, girls begin puberty around ages 10–11 and end puberty around 15–17; boys begin ...

  6. Puberty - Wikipedia

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    The average age at which puberty begins may be affected by ethnicity as well. For example, the average age of menarche in various populations surveyed has ranged from 12 [58] [59] [60] to 18 years. The earliest average onset of puberty is for African-American females and the latest average onset for high altitude subsistence populations in Asia.

  7. Child development - Wikipedia

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    Adolescence is the stage of life that typically starts around the major onset of puberty, with markers such as menarche and spermarche, typically occurring at 12–14 years of age. [3] It has been defined as ages 10 to 24 years old by the World Happiness Report WHR. [ 1 ]

  8. At what age are you considered old? New research points to a ...

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    Participants who were born earlier — from 1911 to 1935 — thought that old age started earlier compared with participants born after 1935. “Our perceptions or conceptions of old age are ...

  9. Child development stages - Wikipedia

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    Once the children begins to grab the upside-down glass with thumb pointing down, then they have displayed end-state comfort. As a result, once they have turned over the glass, the child would have ended with palm holding the glass in a comfortable position. The number of grips conforming to ESC strongly increased with age. [45] Language skills