[Avodah] the cohen gadol and marriage to a pubescent girl

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From: Minden <phminden at arcor.de>
>>Menarche, which dropped  from about 17 years to less than 12 during the 
last 150 years. (  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty#Historical_shift ) It's 
difficult to  extrapolate to the time of the gemore, though - it depends on a 
list of factors  such as ethnic genetics, nutrition and the like.<<
 

Lipman Phillip Minden

>>>>>
AFAIK the  average age of menarche has always been about age 12.   It is 
delayed  in those places and times where malnutrition is widespread.  The 
wikipedia  article doesn't really tell you much because it mentions only a few 
countries  and starts counting from 1840, beginning of Industrial Revolution, when 
poverty  and malnutrition initially worsened. 





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