The biological profile of unidentified human remains in a forensic context

D Austin, RE King - Academic forensic pathology, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Estimation of the biological profile of unidentified human remains is a critical component of
an anthropologic evaluation of unidentified human remains. The profile is used to search for …

Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of cranio-facial sexual dimorphism in a Central European sample of known sex

L Bigoni, J Velemínská, J Brůžek - Homo, 2010 - Elsevier
This article presents an approach for estimating the sexual dimorphism of adult crania using
three-dimensional geometric morphometric methods. The study sample consisted of 139 …

Ancestry estimation: Advances and limitations in forensic applications

DE Flouri, A Alifragki… - … and Reports in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Forensic anthropologists are faced with many challenges one of which is setting the grounds
for the assessment of an unknown individual's population affinity, an essential element for …

Discriminant function sexing of the mandible of indigenous South Africans

D Franklin, P O'Higgins, CE Oxnard, I Dadour - Forensic Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
South Africa currently has a high homicide rate. This results in a large number of unidentified
bodies being recovered each year, many of which are referred to the forensic examiner. This …

Common features of sexual dimorphism in the cranial airways of different human populations

M Bastir, P Godoy, A Rosas - American Journal of Physical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Sexual dimorphism in the human craniofacial system is an important feature of intraspecific
variation in recent and fossil humans. Although several studies have reported different …

The efficacy of sternal measurements for sex estimation in South African blacks

PJ Macaluso Jr - Forensic Science International, 2010 - Elsevier
The correct assessment of sex from the human skeleton is of fundamental importance in
forensic medicine and bioarchaeology. In South Africa, unidentified remains are often …

Three-dimensional geometric morphometric studies of modern human occipital variation

Y Zhang, LA Schepartz - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Objectives To investigate three-dimensional morphological variation of the occipital bone
between sexes and among populations, to determine how ancestry, sex and size account for …

Geographical and taxonomic influences on cranial variation in red colobus monkeys (Primates, Colobinae): introducing a new approach to 'morph'monkeys

A Cardini, S Elton - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To provide accurate but parsimonious quantitative descriptions of clines in cranial form
of red colobus, to partition morphological variance into geographical, taxonomic and …

Sexual dimorphism in the mandible of indigenous South Africans: A geometric morphometric approach

D Franklin, P O'Higgins, CE Oxnard - South African Journal of …, 2008 - journals.co.za
We report here on analyses of new landmark data which capture the range of variation in the
expression and magnitude of mandibular sexual dimorphism in adult South African Bantu …

Population differences in the postcrania of modern South Africans and the implications for ancestry estimation

L Liebenberg, EN L'Abbé, KE Stull - Forensic Science International, 2015 - Elsevier
The cranium is widely recognized as the most important skeletal element to use when
evaluating population differences and estimating ancestry. However, the cranium is not …