preadolescence

• “A boy who turns 10 on January 2 could be playing alongside someone who doesn't turn 10 until the end of the year -- and at that age, in preadolescence, a 12-month gap in age represents an enormous difference in physical maturity.”

  Forbes: Fact And Comment

• “His simplistic and dysfunctional responses are those of someone in preadolescence.”

  Think Progress » How to Avoid Being Shot by Right-Wing Pundits

• “Our preadolescence was spent absorbing imported comics.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Kapow! Superheroes Still Pack a Punch

• “From the wikipedia entry linked above: Marcus Pembrey and colleagues also observed in the Överkalix study that the paternal (but not maternal) grandsons of Swedish boys who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease; if food was plentiful then diabetes mortality in the grandchildren increased, suggesting that this was a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » But Isn’t It a Bit Hard to Predict With a 7-Year-Old?

• “From the wikiepedia article: Marcus Pembrey and colleagues also observed in the Överkalix study that the paternal (but not maternal) grandsons of Swedish boys who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease; if food was plentiful then diabetes mortality in the grandchildren increased, suggesting that this was a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups

• “From the wikiepedia article: Marcus Pembrey and colleagues also observed in the Överkalix study that the paternal but not maternal grandsons of Swedish boys who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease; if food was plentiful then diabetes mortality in the grandchildren increased, suggesting that this was a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups

• “From the wikipedia entry linked above: Marcus Pembrey and colleagues also observed in the Överkalix study that the paternal but not maternal grandsons of Swedish boys who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease; if food was plentiful then diabetes mortality in the grandchildren increased, suggesting that this was a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » But Isn’t It a Bit Hard to Predict With a 7-Year-Old?

• “It's so much about that period of preadolescence, that feeling of being a child and of being bullied, the difficulties of growing up.”

  Matt Reeves Says 'Let Me In' Will Be Darker Than 'Twilight' « FirstShowing.net

• “But The Love Guru makes a terrible case for perpetual preadolescence.”

  Simon & Schuster: My Year of Flops

• “The story line effortlessly switches from preadolescence in which he is a sort of guardian big brother to her to and adult love story.”

  Sundays at Tiffany’sSundays at Tiffany’s-James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews

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