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Chimpanzees' unusually protracted and vulnerable adolescences
- May 22, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual. Most other species pass from puberty to adulthood quickly, but humans linger for years in a transitional state, not quite children but not quite adults, either.
Originally published at Phys.org