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From: oliver@unc.cs.unc.edu (Bill Oliver)
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Subject: Re: Dating age of humans
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 12:01:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 12:01:18 1987
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Keywords: Ageing Human Carbon
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In article <26333@sun.uucp> ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems) writes:
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>   Are there any techniques (like carbon dating) to determine a living
>   human's age (Accurate to within a month/week at least)?  My


In children, if one assumes adequate nutrition, it is possible to get
fairly close by looking at bone growth and maturation.  In adults, it is
only possible to roughly group a person into a general age category
(young adult, middle age, old middle age, etc.).

Bill Oliver