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Ok-Championship-2036 t1_j9a8e17 wrote

No, that isn't how age works.

Even for a forensic examiner, reading age from the body itself is rarely conclusive. The sole exeption is early childhood, which has specific stages of growth and therefore can be a little more telling. However, for adults or cases of malnutrition...determining an exact age is guesswork, not science. Humans do not grow uniformly.

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cosihaveto t1_j9mk4jq wrote

An exact age wouldn't be possible, but in theory wouldn't it be possible to look at the number of mutations that differ between different cells in a person and match that against an expected mutation rate to get some indication of old/yound?

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