The combined weight of the adrenal glands in an adult human ranges from 7 to 10 grams.

Compared to other primates, human breasts are proportionately large throughout adult females ' lives.

The Nexus series — genetically designed by the Tyrell Corporation — are virtually identical to an adult human, but have superior strength, agility, and variable intelligence depending on the model.

While some Bible scholars suggest the size and habits of the great white shark correspond better to the representations given of Jonah's being swallowed, normally an adult human is too large to be swallowed whole.

Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra ) describes Avalokiteśvara as a bodhisattva who can take the form of any type of male or female, adult or child, human or non-human being, in order to teach the Dharma to sentient beings.

Lindow Man's official name is Lindow II, as there are other finds from the area: Lindow I ( Lindow Woman ) refers to a human skull, Lindow III to a " fragmented headless body ", and Lindow IV to the upper thigh of an adult male, possibly that of Lindow Man.

The island's elephant birds, a family of endemic giant ratites, went extinct in 17th century or earlier, most probably due to human hunting of adult birds and poaching of their large eggs for food.

For example, Haeckel proposed that the pharyngeal grooves between the pharyngeal arches in the neck of the human embryo resembled gill slits of fish, thus representing an adult " fishlike " developmental stage as well as signifying a fishlike ancestor.

But these embryonic pharyngeal arches, grooves, pouches, and slits in human embryos could not at any stage carry out the same function as the gills of an adult fish.

Paraphilial psychopathology is not the same as psychologically normative adult human sexual behaviors, sexual fantasy, and sex play.

Some prehistoric species attained enormous sizes, becoming as tall or as heavy as an adult human.

A typical dose of FDG used in an oncological scan is 200-400 MBq for an adult human.

Size of the sub-adult holotype ( green ) and hypothetical adult ( gray ) in both flying and standing postures, compared with a human

The Nexus series — genetically designed by the Tyrell Corporation — are virtually identical to an adult human, but have superior strength, agility, and variable intelligence depending on the model.

As an adult, his mannerisms and personality, as well as his innate sense of honor, became more Klingon than human.

There are 206 bones in the adult human skeleton ( this number depends on whether the pelvic bones ( the os innominatum on each side ) are counted as one or three bones on each side ( ilium, ischium, and pubis ), whether the coccyx or tail bone is counted as one or four separate bones, and does not count the variable wormian bones between skull sutures.

There are 206 bones in the adult human body and 270 in an infant.

Using genetic reprogramming with protein transcription factors, pluripotent stem cells equivalent to embryonic stem cells have been derived from human adult skin tissue.

* November 2007: Human induced pluripotent stem cells: Two similar papers released by their respective journals prior to formal publication: in Cell by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka, " Induction of pluripotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors ", and in Science by Junying Yu, et al., from the research group of James Thomson, " Induced pluripotent stem cell lines derived from human somatic cells ": pluripotent stem cells generated from mature human fibroblasts.

* January 2008: Development of human cloned blastocysts following somatic cell nuclear transfer with adult fibroblasts

* March 2008-The first published study of successful cartilage regeneration in the human knee using autologous adult mesenchymal stem cells is published by clinicians from Regenerative Sciences

* October 2008: Sabine Conrad and colleagues at Tübingen, Germany generate pluripotent stem cells from spermatogonial cells of adult human testis by culturing the cells in vitro under leukemia inhibitory factor ( LIF ) supplementation.

Some have argued that the adult human mind naturally organizes its knowledge of the world into such systems.

In the adult world, there are a number of rather general and diffuse sources of ideological diffusion that further compound the adolescent's search for meaning during this particular identity crisis.

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.

As a result, he was ambivalent about his faith and dismissive of old world traditions from childhood, and as an adult he embraced Anglophilia to remove himself even further from his roots.

Both males and females grow to an adult length of to from snout to vent, with a total length of to making it the third largest aquatic salamander species in the world ( next to the Chinese giant salamander and the Japanese giant salamander ) and the largest in North America.

Because his eminently intellectual approach to life is modelled on the attitudes and rules of the authoritative adult world, he thinks everyone should share his values and attitudes as a matter of course.

The Universal House of Justice is elected through secret ballot and plurality vote in a three-stage election by adult Bahá ' ís throughout the world.

It should be noted that wherever marketed and sold throughout the world, Kinder Surprise bears prominent warnings both on the outer and inner packaging advising the consumer that the toy is “ not suitable for children under three years, due to the presence of small parts ” and that “ adult supervision is recommended .”

Flourishing in a world in which slaveholding was a badge of civilization, Calhoun saw little reason to question its morality as an adult.

Only one full adult body stencil is known to exist in the world ; it can be seen publicly at the Tombs site in the Mount Moffatt section of the park.

Despite the legal adult age of 18, many specific rights such as consumption, voting, consent, and working have different ages around the world.

The eight-part series, beginning on 4 October, gives three-to six-year-olds the chance to fulfil their greatest ambitions in the adult world ; whether running a photographic studio, a radio station or an ice-cream van.

Antioch University serves more than 4, 000 adult students around the world and across the country, online and from its five campuses in four states.

Now Mliss Abnethe, a psychotic human female with immense power and wealth, has bound a Caleban ( called Fannie Mae ) in a contract that allows the Caleban to be whipped to death ; when the Caleban dies, everyone who has ever used a jumpdoor ( which is almost every adult in the sentient world and many of the young ) will die as well.

In some parts of the world, backyard cricket ( and other similar games ) is one of the very few truly childlike activities that modern adults may participate in without attracting social stigma, and one of the dwindling number of adult activities that are accessible to children.

It is generally a time of playing, learning, socializing, exploring, and worrying in a world without much adult interference, aside from parents.

Play allows children to create and explore a world they can master, conquering their fears while practicing adult roles, sometimes in conjunction with other children or adult caregivers.

In most of the world, including most of the United States, parts of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Wales ), India and China, the legal adult age is 18 ( historically 21 ) for most purposes, with some notable exceptions:

" I wanted to put two characters of flesh and bone in the middle of all these artificial creatures ," Henson explained, " and David Bowie embodies a certain maturity, with his sexuality, his disturbing aspect, all sorts of things that characterize the adult world.

Falling off the cliff could be a progression into the adult world that surrounds him and that he strongly criticizes.

Researchers have characterized youth culture as embodying values that are “ in conflict with those of the adult world ”, Common concerns about youth culture include a perceived lack of interest in education, involvement in risky behaviors like substance use and sexual activity, and engaging extensively in leisure activities.

A Manx Shearwater breeding on Copeland Island, Northern Ireland, is currently ( 2003 / 2004 ) the oldest known wild bird in the world: ringed as an adult ( at least 5 years old ) in July 1953, it was retrapped in July 2003, at least 55 years old.

An adult human can die from a single bite in less than 15 minutes, making the king cobra one of the most feared and deadly snakes in the world.