Article
Forensic diagnosis of race--general race vs specific populations.
Social science & medicine (1982) - 1 Jan 1992
Brues A M
Abstract excerpt
Commonly used methods of diagnosing racial affinity from the skull may give paradoxical results. This may be due to using single populations to represent large geographical areas, and to the use of measurements unduly subject to local variation. It is suggested that a more flexible approach, usin...
Topics
- Anthropology, Physical
- Cephalometry
- Databases, Factual
- Forensic Medicine
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Racial Groups
- Reproducibility of Results
- Software
- United States