Abstract In 1992, Norm Sauer called for a language shift in which practitioners would move
away from the socially loaded term “race” and replace it with the less provocative term …

The degree of sexual dimorphism expressed by human bones is of primary importance for
the development of accurate methods for sex estimation. The objective of the present study …

Statistical programs have revolutionized the way in which forensic anthropologists conduct
casework by allowing practitioners to use computationally complex analytics at the click of a …

Johann Blumenbach (1752–1840), a German anatomist and naturalist, did not agree with
Linnaeus. Blumenbach could not see how the natural world and its inhabitants could be …

The mandible or lower jaw is the largest and hardest bone in the human facial skeleton.
Fractures of the mandible are reported to be a common facial trauma in emergency …

Sexual dimorphism in a population varies over time due to temporal changes and data on
this need to be updated regularly. Further, each population needs its own sex-discriminating …

Current quantitative methods for estimating ancestry and sex from skulls typically require
substantial manual data collection and specialized recording equipment, which can limit …

Abstract Traditionally, precontact Native Americans and Asian groups have been conflated
for aspects of the biological profile due to their distantly shared genetic history, although this …

Mandibular metric and morphological characteristics have long been used for sex and
ancestry estimation. Currently, there are no large‐scale studies examining interobserver …

This chapter explores the approaches and methods used to determine sex from the human
skeleton. Skeletal sex determination in medico-legal or archaeological context is a key …