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Racial variation in the proximal and distal femur: heritability and forensic utility.
Journal of forensic sciences - 1 Jul 2001
Gill G W
Abstract excerpt
The femur has been studied successfully by physical anthropologists for many years. Such traits as femoral head diameter and bicondylar width have been examined extensively and are of great value to forensic anthropologists and other skeletal biologists in sex identification. A number of studies over the past decade by the author and his former students have shown marked racial differences in the shape of the...
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