Dynamics of body time, social time and life history at adolescence

Nature

Volumn 554, Issue 7693, 2018, Pages 451-457

  Worthman, Carol M ^a   Trang, Kathy ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EDUCATION; GLOBALIZATION; LIFE HISTORY; LIVELIHOOD; MATURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULTHOOD; BIODIVERSITY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DYNAMICS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH RATE; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE HISTORY; LIFESTYLE; LONGEVITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME FACTOR; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HISTORY; LEARNING; MALE; MENARCHE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CHANGE; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; BODY HEIGHT; CULTURE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MENARCHE; PUBERTY; SOCIAL CHANGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85042485136     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature25750     Document Type: Review

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