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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Greenberg

>Brooke Greenberg (born January 8, 1993), is an American from Reisterstown, Maryland, who has remained physically and cognitively similar to a toddler, despite her increasing age. She is about 30 inches (76 cm) tall, weighs about 16 pounds (7.3 kg), and has an estimated mental age of nine months to one year. Brooke's doctors have termed her condition Syndrome X.

> Said Walker, "We think that Brooke's condition presents us with a unique opportunity to understand the process of aging."[7] "Different parts of her body are developing at different rates, as if they were not a unit but parts of separate organisms," Walker explains.[3]
Dr. Walker believes that the condition resulted from a failure of central control genes. He has identified two more people with similar developmental issues: Gabrielle Williams of Montana (born 2004) and Nicky Freeman of Australia (born 1970), a forty-year-old man who looks like a boy. Others, such as British biologist Aubrey de Grey, believe that aging and development are not related

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh did evolution just provide us with a gigantic fucking hint as to steps towards massive medical breakthroughs and perhaps even the holy grail of biological immortality

>> No.3578194

can i legally have sex with her? age of consent is 16 here

>> No.3578199
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Holy FUCK

>> No.3578205

don't they do this to some mentally handicapped people, so that it is easier to care for them?

>> No.3578206

>>3578194
In a rare case where consent laws actually make sense, the age of a person is irrelevant when the person is mentally incapable of consenting to sex. This applies to the mentally retarded, developmentally retarded, and the infirm (comas, old people, etc).

As for that person, damn. I mean, scientifically, a great thing. Fantastic for study. In some regards, though, I find keeping such a person alive to be ethically questionable.

>> No.3578207

>>3578194
of course that's the first thing that pops into someone on 4chan's mind

>> No.3578211

>>3578205
do... what exactly?

all i'm seeing is an absolutely amazing genetic mutation

>> No.3578220

Nah. Still gonna acquire mutations and die of cancer, sclerosis and heart failure, et cetera.

>> No.3578224

Fucking learn "Free Radicals" OP, you ignorant asshole.

>> No.3578227

>>3578220
those can be treated, cured, or replaced.

the only thing that really can't be is the brain

>> No.3578244

>>3578224
what

>> No.3578254

i think evolution just provided us with a means for legal kiddy sex. and im all for it baby. i got my physics degree, just tell me where to start the research.

damn id bang that hot piece of ass.

>> No.3578296

>>3578244

free radicals are the main cause of aging...

>> No.3578301

>>3578296
>main cause
Sorry, but stop getting your science from the back of health food boxes.

>> No.3578302

>>3578296
I thought it was Laissez-faire capitalism.

>> No.3578304

I think it just gives us a great insight into development. Not aging.

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>>3578296

>> No.3578313

>implying she will ever be a functional adult mentally

>> No.3578339

What a fucking nightmare for that mother.

Babies are horrible little creatures and she now has a permanent one instead of one you only deal with for a few years.

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ok so hypothetically lets say I have sex with it, can it not be legal since it would not be able to say in court that it did not object to the sexual advances hmmrph?

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>>3578339
BUT. CAN. I. HAVE. FUCK. WITH. IT. ?

please stay on topic

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>>3578190
I would like to dry sex it.

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This thread reminded me why I still come here.

>> No.3578383

>>3578301
>>3578302
>>3578311

do you even know what free radicals are? Of course you dont, its not a popular area on bio-chemistry (continue hipster joke here).

There are several studies of free radicals relating to aging, but the process of aging was never relevant, most people dont know there are studies about aging in normal people and animals...

Basically, the more free radicals you got in your body, the more wuick you age.

>>3578301
food has also free radicals in it...

>> No.3578409

I imagine it's unlikely that they actually age much slower, as the metabolic functions that cause aging would still be present, just not as active. I kind of agree with de Grey, though I'd imagine (of course, this would be for experts to argue) that less physically developed individuals don't age quite as quickly.

>> No.3578425

>>3578383
>wuick you age.
you had me at wuick.

>> No.3578433

>>3578254
it's a gift from god and analyzing her is a sin and won't be done

>> No.3578436

Ive got a friend who studies telomeres and studies aging. Once played darts with De Gray or whoever.

It seems like aging is a human condition. And now that we are trying to solve it we are trying to give it biological definitions, which of course we cant.

You cant just say "Getting old cus free radicals." There are a variety of biological mechanisms will are going to make people old. Perhaps free radicals included.

>> No.3578442

I will kidnap it, kill it, and harvest it's chromosomes
FOR SCIENCE

>> No.3578446

Am I fucked up if the first thing I thought of was legal toddler porn?

>> No.3578448

>>3578442
do that and give us results

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AWH YEA NIGGA THAT WHITE GIRL LOOKIN FINE AS FUCK

>> No.3578479

>>3578211
sometimes they remove their sexual organs to prevent the onset of puberty
puberty for these ppl can be life threatening and painful

>> No.3578482

>2011
>Witnessing this and STILL believing in god

I REALLY, REALLY hope you guys aren't doing this.

>> No.3578485

awesome video about aging

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iYpxRXlboQ

>> No.3578523

mmm nigger baby make for good eatinz

>> No.3578546

>>3578383
Its a flaming lips song. Fuck you.