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the receipt life hands you whether or not you wanted the purchase
means The length of time someone or something has existed, or one of the distinct stages or periods within that span.
from From Old French 'aage' (modern 'âge'), drawn up from the Latin 'aetas,' meaning lifetime or era — itself rooted in 'aevum,' a span of life or eternity. That same 'aevum' is a distant cousin of words like 'eon' and even 'ever,' all circling the idea of time stretching out. So 'age' has always carried two faces: the years you've accumulated, and the great epochs the world passes through.
- just a number
- Until your knees disagree loudly
- telomere clocks
- Tiny DNA caps shorten with each cell division
- jellyfish cheat
- One species reverts to baby form indefinitely
- birthday math
- Babies clock zero in most Western counting
- bone witness
- Tree-like rings inside teeth reveal your true years
jeanne calment — oldest verified person ever, lived 122 years 164 days (1875-1997)
methuselah tree — great basin bristlecone pine in california, over 5,000 years old
lucy skeleton — hominin fossil in ethiopia, dated to 3.2 million years ago