Puberty Starts Earlier Than It Used To. No One Knows Why
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As apex predators they have elevated levels of endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Since we (humans) are also pretty much an apex predator across a wide range of species it is an almost certainly we have the same sorts of problems
[1] "A New Study has found contaminants that were banned decades ago are still imperilling critically endangered California condors" (https://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?...)
It's a bit startling how quickly it seems to be advancing, though: this 2005 article is saying girls were becoming pubescent "between 9 and 10, roughly a year early". It's only taken a couple decades for that to have turned into "...mostly of girls who were developing breasts at 7 or 8 years old" and "as early as 6 and 7"
How are you so confident about this maybe-correlation? It seems FUDish and overconfident without the data to back it up.
All we can say for now is that we don't really know why the average age is on the decline. There are a lot of variables.
It must be a stress response, so even lower density areas feel some of the pressures of overpopulation (resource scarcity, etc).
And I really think that endocrine disrupting chemicals can’t be ignored (but I’m studying analysis of complex environmental samples for my PhD so I’m biased)
by Shanna Swan, PhD
https://www.amazon.com/Count-Down-Threatening-Reproductive-D...
hyper-industrialization of the food industry is the reason why
you are, and as a species you become something based on what you eat
you change what your species used to eat, you evolve into something else
that's chemicals and how evolution works
That is definitely not how evolution works. First of all, evolution doesn't happen noticeably over one or two generations, which is the timeline we're talking about here. Secondly, show me how something affects fecundity or survival before we can even begin talking about its affect on evolution.