There is little spontaneous regeneration in adult humans, although the liver is a notable exception.

The idea that adult humans exhibit certain neotenous ( juvenile ) features, not evinced in the great apes, is about a century old.

Most living things that are visible to the naked eye in their adult form are eukaryotes, including humans.

One of the fossils found — a male, adult jawbone — has been dated to be between 34, 000 and 36, 000 years old, which would make it one of the oldest fossils found to date of modern humans in Europe.

Later, some juvenile and adult humans " goblinized " into other races ( mostly orks, but also some trolls ).

There are three accessible sources of autologous adult stem cells in humans:

In adult humans, the stomach has a relaxed, near empty volume of about 45 ml.

Studies ( notably The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two ) have suggested that the short-term memory of adult humans can hold only a limited number of items ; grouping items into larger chunks such as in a mnemonic might be part of what permits the brain to hold a larger total amount of information in short-term memory, which in turns can aid the creation of long-term memories.

Only humans pose a threat to an adult but juveniles are consumed by other muskies, northern pike, bass, and occasionally birds of prey.

In adult humans, the entire retina is approximately 72 % of a sphere about 22 mm in diameter.

In adult humans, the larynx is found in the anterior neck at the level of the C3 – C6 vertebrae.

However, some aquatic mammals, large deer, and adult humans have descended larynges.

In adult humans, the volume of the hippocampus on each side of the brain is about 3 – 3. 5 cm < sup > 3 </ sup >, as compared to 320 – 420 cm < sup > 3 </ sup > for the volume of the neocortex.

In adult humans, it is just a thin layer of cells between the anterior and posterior pituitary.

An individual datura seed contains about 0. 1 mg of atropine, and the approximate fatal dose for adult humans is > 10 mg atropine or > 2 – 4 mg scopolamine.

There is also evidence that taurine is beneficial for adult human blood pressure and possibly, the alleviation of other cardiovascular ailments ( in humans suffering essential hypertension, taurine supplementation resulted in measurable decreases in blood pressure ).

This level is suitable for work involving well-characterized agents not known to consistently cause disease in healthy adult humans, and of minimal potential hazard to laboratory personnel and the environment ( CDC, 1997 ).

In healthy European adult humans, average testicular volume is 18 cm³ per testis, with normal size ranging from 12 cm³ to 30 cm³.

By analogy to the neurotic behavior in monkeys, he suggested that these developmental abnormalities are a major cause of adult violence amongst humans.

Measuring the anogenital distance in neonatal humans has been suggested as a noninvasive method to determine male feminisation and thereby predict neonatal and adult reproductive disorders.

Another incident involved an adult woman reputedly eaten by a " large reticulated python ", but few details are known .< ref name =" Kop27 "> ( 1927 ): Over het verslinden van menschen door Python reticulatus the swallowing of humans by P. reticulatus ".

While the eagles generally seem to prefer flying lemurs where available, most other animals found in the Philippines, short of adult ungulates and humans, may be taken as prey.

It is the most frequent infectious disease in humans with the average adult contracting two to three colds a year and the average child contracting between six and twelve.

In adult humans, the small intestine is usually between 5. 5 and 6m long, 2. 5m of which is the jejunum.

Many churches find the Sunday school hour to be the most practical time for adult preparation classes.

In the adult state they have tear ducts and movable eyelids and most species have ears that can detect airborne or ground vibrations.

Larvae and most aquatic adult amphibians excrete the nitrogen as ammonia in large quantities of dilute urine while terrestrial species, with a greater need to conserve water, excrete the less toxic product urea.

Angst, in contemporary connotative use, most often describes the intense frustration and other emotions of teenagers and the mood of the music and art with which they identify in accordance with adult stereotype.

From a modern perspective these figures may seem small, but in the world of Greek city-states Athens was huge: most of the thousand or so Greek cities could only muster 1000 – 1500 adult male citizens and Corinth, a major power, had at most 15, 000 but in some very seldom cases more.

At pHs lower than 5 most fish eggs will not hatch and lower pHs can kill adult fish.

The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals — only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have one, even if diffuse neural tissue is present.

Carnivorans are the most diverse in size of any mammalian order, ranging from the least weasel ( Mustela nivalis ), at as little as and, to the polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ), which can weigh up to, to the southern elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina ), whose adult males weigh up to and measure up to in length.

Catullus appears to have spent most of his young adult years in Rome.

Coyotes ( both single individuals and groups ) have been known to occasionally kill bobcats – in most cases, the bobcats were relatively small specimens, such as adult females and juveniles.

She spent most of her childhood and all of her adult life based in Paris and then the abbey at Poissy, and wrote entirely in her adoptive tongue of Middle French.

In the colonial period before 1776, and for some time after, often only adult white male property owners could vote ; enslaved Africans, most free black people and most women were not extended the franchise.

Jonathan Kozol, a former public school teacher and prominent public school reform thinker has called vouchers the " single worst, most dangerous idea to have entered education discourse in my adult life.

He was presumably born in the town which he lived most of his adult life, Caesarea Maritima.

Von Baer ’ s laws state that general features of animals appear earlier in the embryo than special features, where less general features stem from the most general, each embryo of a species departs more and more from a predetermined passage through the stages of other animals, and there is never a complete morphological similarity between an embryo and a lower adult.

Even if one does know this, it may not be possible to identify it with any confidence, since most keys refer to adult characters.

If available, inhabitants may take potassium iodide at the rate of 130 mg / day per adult ( 65 mg / day per child ) as an additional measure to protect the thyroid gland from the uptake of dangerous radioactive iodine, a component of most fallout and reactor waste.

Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks, which focused on a pair of bored, twenty-something convenience store clerks in New Jersey circa 1994 ; Linklater's Slacker similarly explored young adult characters who were more interested in philosophizing than settling with a long-term career and family ; Solondz ' Welcome to the Dollhouse touched upon themes of school bullying, school violence, teen drug use, peer pressure and broken or dysfunctional families, mostly set in a junior high school environment during the early to mid-1990s.

Antony Flew, an academic philosopher who promoted atheism for most of his adult life indicated that the fine-tuned universe arguments of Gerald Schroeder convinced him to become a deist.

Incest between an adult and a child is usually considered a form of child sexual abuse and for many years has been the most reported form of incest.

The most public case of consensual adult sibling incest in recent years is the case of a brother-sister couple from Germany, Patrick Stübing and Susan Karolewski.

Engler has spent most of his adult life in government.