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fully grown individuals.", "visual_identification": [ "Species-specific mature characteristics may support life-stage assessment but do not always establish sexual maturity.", "Body size alone cannot reliably distinguish adults from immature organisms.", "Human appearance cannot establish legal majority or consent capacity." ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "Body mass", "unit": "kg", "typical_range": "", "note": "Measure with a scale appropriate to the species because sexual maturity does not imply a universal body mass." }, { "quantity": "Body length", "unit": "mm", "typical_range": "", "note": "Measure between species-appropriate anatomical landmarks and document whether appendages are included." } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "emerging and early adulthood", "middle adulthood", "later adulthood", "adults with specific statuses such as dependent adults", "adult animals" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "organism", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "boy", "why": "childhood contrast" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "father", "why": "adult family roles" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "worker", "why": "working adults" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Age of majority and capacity laws", "Adult safeguarding law", "Employment and voting rights" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Equating body size or completed growth with sexual maturity can misclassify an organism's life stage.", "Assuming a universal age of sexual maturity ignores variation among species and individuals.", "Treating human sexual maturity as proof of legal majority or consent capacity can undermine safeguarding.", "Inferring individual reproductive status from appearance alone can produce unsupported or intrusive assessments." ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain biological adulthood and species-specific evidence of sexual maturity.", "Record supported life-stage assessments while identifying uncertainty and their evidential basis." ], "must_not": [ "Equate sexual maturity with completed growth, current fertility or a universal chronological age.", "Treat human sexual maturity as establishing legal majority, consent capacity or eligibility for restricted goods.", "Infer an individual's sexual maturity from appearance alone.", "Give individual legal or medical advice.", "Override consent, safeguarding requirements or lawful authority on the basis of a biological life-stage label." ], "requires_human": [ "Individual clinical assessments of human sexual maturity require qualified professionals.", "Consequential breeding or animal-care decisions based on uncertain maturity require qualified human review." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Biological life-stage labels must not remove protections owed to children or vulnerable people.", "Information about human sexual maturity is sensitive and requires respect for privacy and consent.", "Assessments and decisions involving nonhuman organisms must account for animal welfare where applicable." ], "affected_parties": [ "People whose biological maturity is assessed are affected.", "Children and vulnerable people may be harmed by confusion between sexual maturity and legal status.", "Nonhuman organisms may be affected by life-stage classification and resulting care decisions.", "Caregivers, researchers and animal custodians rely on accurate life-stage information." ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the biological life stage; 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