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When did we humans start measuring our biological age? If you were born in the winter do people just assume that every winter is your "birthday"? When did a concept of "legal age" start to matter?

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When did we humans start measuring our biological age? If you were born in the winter do people just assume that every winter is your "birthday"? When did a concept of "legal age" start to matter?	5608
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