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In the case of mammals, it has been suggested that large, hearty adult body sizes favor the production of large, precocious young, which develop with a longer gestation period. Large young may be associated with migratory behavior, extended reproductive period, and reduced litter size.
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In medicine, precocious puberty is puberty occurring at an unusually early age. In most cases, the process is normal in every aspect except the unusually early age and simply represents a variation of normal development .
Bogin points out that Kollmann had intended the meaning to be "retaining youth", but had evidently confused the Greek teínein with the Latin tenere, which had the meaning he wanted, "to retain", so that the new word would mean "the retaining of youth (into adulthood)". [15] In 1926, Louis Bolk described neoteny as the major process in ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. Main article: Child prodigy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. John von Neumann as a child In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a ...
The word was popularized in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, [4] in which it is used as the title of a song and defined as "something to say when you don't know what to say". The Sherman Brothers , who wrote the Mary Poppins song, have given several conflicting explanations for the word's origin, in one instance claiming to have coined it themselves ...
Precocious may refer to: Precocious (horse) (1981–2006), a British Thoroughbred racehorse; Precocious puberty, a developmental disorder; Precocious toddler, a legal ...
Hyperlexia is a syndrome characterized by a child's precocious ability to read.It was initially identified by Norman E. Silberberg and Margaret C. Silberberg (1967), who defined it as the precocious ability to read words without prior training in learning to read, typically before the age of five.