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But, even this is imprecise as acceptable ages of marriage vary from as young as 10 years for girls in some societies to as late as 35+ years for men in other societies. The 10 year old is not an adult; the 35 year old has been biologically adult for at least a decade. No matter at what age it occurs, adulthood marks the beginning of the aging process and the eventual transition to senescence and death. <strong>[Barry Bogin]<\/strong>","link":"https:\/\/museoecologiahumana.org\/en\/espacio\/life-cycle-biology-and-culture\/the-ages-of-life\/reproductive-to-post-reproductive-stage-in-women-and-men-sexual-and-gender-differences-lifespan-ageing-death\/","name":"Reproductive to post-reproductive stage in women (and men): Sexual and gender differences, lifespan, ageing, death","slug":"reproductive-to-post-reproductive-stage-in-women-and-men-sexual-and-gender-differences-lifespan-ageing-death","taxonomy":"espacio","parent":2389,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reproductive to post-reproductive stage in women (and men): Sexual and gender differences, lifespan, ageing, death archivos - Museo de Ecolog\u00eda Humana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/museoecologiahumana.org\/en\/espacio\/life-cycle-biology-and-culture\/the-ages-of-life\/reproductive-to-post-reproductive-stage-in-women-and-men-sexual-and-gender-differences-lifespan-ageing-death\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reproductive to post-reproductive stage in women (and men): Sexual and gender differences, lifespan, ageing, death archivos - Museo de Ecolog\u00eda Humana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a biocultural process and there is no exact chronological age at which adulthood begins. 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