(January 7, 2013 at 6:28 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Then you would be assuming wrongly. Why can't she be mature at age nine? Is maturity related only towards 'when can this creature reproduce', or what? There have been 8 year old mothers before.I think it has something to do with brain development.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892678/
(January 7, 2013 at 6:28 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:Quote:Then again, "maturity" could refer to a number of things like physical, sexual, or emotional maturity, the first two of which are determined by age.
No, actually. None of these are determined by age. All of these can be accelerated or decelerated, and who knows where science will take the question of 'how fast' one day?
Seriously. Not that you've yet to define what maturity is.
Okay, technically you're right about that, but by that same logic "aging" isn't determined by age either, is it? I suppose one could make a theoretical argument that aging isn't aging, nor that anything is "determined by" anything else, if it can be influenced by other factors. A better way I could have worded it would have been "physical/sexual maturity is influenced by age" in that naturally these things progress with age. Maybe science really could speed things up in the future (probably could) but they couldn't in that era.
