Having a mid-life crisis? Don't despair: as our comprehensive Ages of Man graphic proves, it's not too late to have a burst of genius.

From precocious teens to literary nonagenarians this Channel 4 News timeline shows that the creative impulse isn't doomed to fade as the years pass. With a third of the UK population already over 50, that's got to be good news.

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