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From: ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems)
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Subject: Dating age of humans
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Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 22:43:42 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 23 22:43:42 1987
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Keywords: Ageing Human Carbon
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   To-day, when a friend of mine related to me a story of how a friend
   of his has no recollection of his birth date, it struck upon me on
   the availibilty/non-availability of a clinical/bilogically accurate
   technique of determining human age (while a person is still alive).

   Are there any techniques (like carbon dating) to determine a living
   human's age (Accurate to within a month/week at least)?  My
   knowledge of biology and/or human anoanotmy&physilogy is not
   more than high-school level.  So, anybody know of any techniques
   that can succesfully determine the age of a person?  A simple
   technique (invasive/non-invasive) could be useful in determining the
   ages of many natives/tribes of the African & South American and many
   thirld world nations were records of birth (as well as death) are
   not kept.

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