Re: India: Three Year Old Runs Marathon Distances

deowll wrote:
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> "Philip Deitiker" <Nopdeitik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > In sci.anthropology.paleo, spiznet created a message ID
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> >> So, this raises the possibility of groups of h.e. or h.s. 3-6
> > year olds
> >> running down the slow herbivores,herding them so that their
> > older
> >> siblings/parents could club them to death in a dead end!!
> >
> > Neandertals, early maturation, short lived.
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> This feature has not be totally removed from Hss. The normal age for puberty
> in girls seems to be somewhere between 8 and 16!

And that is affected by such things as better nutrition. The average age
has dropped over the past coupla centuries. There's another factor these
days in that hormones in food products can also hasten that. (This also
affects other creatures because these chemicals leach into lakes and
rivers.)
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