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The Accelerated Development of Youth: Beard Growth as a Biological Marker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Herbert Moller
Herbert Moller
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Boston University
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Anyone who sees today's high schoolers sporting beards will be surprised— or incredulous—to read in Homer's Iliad that Achilles, the greatest warrior among the Greeks at Troy, was still beardless. Yet Plato accepted it as a wellknown and unsurprising tradition.

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The Facts of Life
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 748 - 762
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1987

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