Understanding race and human variation: why forensic anthropologists are good at identifying race.

Abstract excerpt

American forensicanthropologists uncritically accepted the biological race concept from classic physical anthropology and applied it to methods of human identification. Why and how the biological race concept might work in forensic anthropology was contemplated by Sauer (Soc Sci Med 34 1992 107-111), who hypothesized that American forensic anthropologists are good at what they do because of a concordance between...

Topics

• Black or African American
• Cephalometry
• Cluster Analysis
• Demography
• Forensic Anthropology
• Genetic Variation
• Humans
• Phenotype
• Racial Groups
• Skull
• United States
• White People