delayed maturity

There is marked delayed maturity in both species.

Delayed maturity in young adults happens only if parents continue to cater to their adult children's needs as if they were still 10-year-olds.

However, their life history cycle is probably similar to other river sharks, characterized by long gestation, slow growth, delayed maturity, and small litter size.

For one wild moment Mondschein thought that he had turned into a telepath, some latent power breaking through in a delayed maturity.

All these cursorial hunters display delayed maturity, are long-legged, heavy-winged, with prominent crests and long, broad tails.

She had cut briskly through a thousand dreads and fears and mysteries and had brought him joyously to his delayed maturity.

In relation to eating disorders, young female gymnasts may suffer from delayed menarche, menstrual irregularities, low body fat, and delayed maturity.

Now ready to pursue the solo career his loyalty to Frank and delayed maturity had kept on the back burner, Jack goes to Frank's house to mend fences.

But a necessary component of our generation's famously delayed maturity is the recognition that those marijuana-laced orgies in New Canaan were neither as delightfully absorbing nor as frequent as we'd supposed.

If, by contrast, ageing has evolved as part of an optimal life history, then there may be a direct cost, for instance in the form of a reduction in survival to maturity, delayed maturity or lower fertility in early adulthood.