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Who exactly counts as an adolescent?

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On the days when Roy Laver was summoned to be measured, he knew to expect two things. “You were going to be cold,” he says. “And you were going to be starkers — in the nude — with lots of adult people looking at you.”

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Nature 554, 429-431 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02169-w

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