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Ancestry Studies in Forensic Anthropology: Back on the Frontier of Racism.
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- Ancestry estimation: Methodological evolution and forensic implications.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2026Review
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- Overcoming Systemic Barriers in US Forensic Anthropology Education: Considering Underlying Barriers to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Forensic Anthropology.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Estimation of population affinity using proximal femoral measurements based on computed tomographic images in the Japanese and western Australian populations.International journal of legal medicine · 2024Article
- Ancestry estimation in forensic anthropology: accuracy of the AncesTrees software in a Brazilian sample.Forensic sciences research · 2023Article
- Chronology of permanent teeth mineralization in Brazilian individuals: age estimation tables.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the (hu)MANid program for sex and ancestry estimation in a diverse, contemporary CT scan-based sample.Journal of forensic sciences · 2023Article
- Dental size variation in admixed Latin Americans: Effects of age, sex and genomic ancestry.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
One of the parameters forensic anthropologists have traditionally estimated is ancestry, which is used in the United States as a proxy for social race. Its use is controversial because the biological race concept was debunked by scientists decades ago. However, many forensic anthropologists contend, in part, that because social race categories used by law enforcement can be predicted by cranial variation, ancestry remains a necessary parameter for estimation. Here, we use content analysis of the
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