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the body's unsupervised renovation project, completed by a contractor with zero communication skills
means The period during which a child's body matures sexually and physically into that of an adult, driven by a surge of hormones.
from From Latin pubertas, meaning 'adult age' or 'manhood,' rooted in puber, 'adult,' literally 'covered with hair' — the same pubes that gives us 'pubic.' The Romans, ever practical, defined growing up by the visible evidence: the arrival of body hair marked the official transition into adulthood. It entered English in the late Middle Ages by way of Latin.
- brain rewire
- prefrontal cortex keeps remodeling until age 25
- growth speed
- feet often grow first, hence sudden clumsiness
- trigger gland
- the hypothalamus secretly fires the starting gun
- voice drop
- larynx growth lowers male voices nearly an octave
- smell shift
- new sweat glands invite body odor's debut
menarche — first menstruation in females, typically occurring between ages 12-13
spermarche — first ejaculation in males, typically occurring between ages 13-14
voice breaking — laryngeal growth in adolescent males causing pitch changes, ages 11-15