Adolescence- a Social Construct or a Physiological state?

Adolescence is one of medicine's most comfortable assumptions. We treat it as though nature designed it — a universal, biologically driven stage bridging childhood & adulthood. More one examines the evidence across neuroscience, anthropology, history, and reproductive biology, clearer it becomes: puberty is biology. Adolescence is a story we started telling in 19th century — and then forgot that this was fiction.

PUBERTY VS ADOLESCENCE — DISTINCTION THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING

Puberty is a universal biological event. Driven by the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, it triggers hormonal surges, physical transformation, and neural rewiring — occurring consistently across every culture, every era, and every mammal on Earth. Its behavioural ...