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Breast development, also known as mammogenesis, is a complex biological process in primates that takes place throughout a female's life. It occurs across several phases, including prenatal development , puberty , and pregnancy .
In October 2023 the book was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list. [6] It was shortlisted in 2024 for both the Orwell Prize for Political Writing [7] and the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. [8] In 2024 the book was Longlisted for Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. [9]
For pubescent girls in thelarche (the breast-development stage), the female sex hormones (principally estrogens) in conjunction with growth hormone promote the sprouting, growth, and development of the breasts. During this time, the mammary glands grow in size and volume and begin resting on the chest. These development stages of secondary sex ...
Hoffmeester recorded 15 second videos every week of his daughter, Lotte, from a newborn to a teenager and compiled them together to make a time-lapse video. He calls it "the ultimate coming of age time-lapse". He has done several videos of her being recorded to different ages, such as 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 years old. [8] [9]
The mammary ridge is primordial for the mammary glands on the chest in humans, and is associated with mammary gland and breast development.. In human embryogenesis, the mammary ridge usually appears as a narrow, microscopic ectodermal thickening during the first seven weeks of pregnancy and grows caudally as a narrow, linear ridge. [1]
Thelarche, also known as breast budding, is the onset of secondary breast development, often representing the beginning of pubertal development. [1] It is the stage at which male and female breasts differentiate due to variance in hormone levels; however, some males have a condition in which they develop breasts, termed gynecomastia .
The Tanner scale (also known as the Tanner stages or sexual maturity rating (SMR)) is a scale of physical development as pre-pubescent children transition into adolescence, and then adulthood. The scale defines physical measurements of development based on external primary and secondary sex characteristics , such as the size of the breasts ...
Korean women wearing the traditional hanbok concealed the female body by binding their breasts tightly with a cloth band. [6] [7] In Japan, the traditional kimono flattens the appearance of the breasts, with breasts bound and flattened with an obi, [8] and a datemaki belt wrapped around the torso from the chest to the waist. [9]