$35.00 – Paperback book / Portobello / ISBN:9781846271212
Teenagers: A Natural History
During the second decade of human life, the body and brain
undergo a profound and complex transformation, with emotions and
intellect changing as rapidly and unpredictably as weight and
height. These changes can be baffling - to teenagers and to those
around them alike - but adolescence plays an important evolutionary
role in who we become as adults and there are hard scientific facts
behind the spots, the smells and the sexual experimentation, as
well as the existential angst, the anger, and the irresistible
attraction to all the things that are bad for you.
In clear, engaging and amiable prose, Bainbridge explains the
strange and wonderful science of the teenage years.