Is it possible to escape racial typology in forensic identification?

Forensic Anthropology and Medicine: Complementary Sciences From Recovery to Cause of Death

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 281-316

  Albanese, John ^a   Saunders, Shelley R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

anthroposcopic traits; discriminant function; ethnicity; morphological characters; nonmetric traits; personal identification; population affinities; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949156136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-099-7_12     Document Type: Chapter

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