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Mystery #3Tier 2-3hormones / growing up

Why does your body slowly change as you grow from a child into an adult?

For years you grow a little taller and not much else. Then, somewhere around the age of ten to fourteen, everything shifts: your voice, your shape, your skin, all changing over just a few years. Nobody tells your body to start, yet it starts anyway, right on cue. What flips the switch from child to adult?

A row of Russian nesting dolls arranged from largest to smallest
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