The four main features of biological identity are sex, age, stature, and ethnic background.
The forensic osteologist aims to establish these attributes for an individual from their skeletal …

The identification of even the smallest human fetal bone can be vital to the success of a
criminal investigation or to the identification of the deceased. This book examines every …

Cranial sutures and synchondrosis have long been studied by forensic scientists, human
anatomists, and anthropologists for estimation of age in different population groups …

The dental maturity of 1031 healthy southern French subjects aged between 2 and 18 years
was studied with dental panoramic tomograms. Demirjian's method based on seven and …

Death rates and life expectancies as revealed by a demographic profile are often used as a
reflection of the health and well-being of a population. When attempting to reconstruct the …

Dental maturity was studied from 2213 dental panoramic radiographs of healthy ethnic Finns
from southern Finland, aged between 2 and 19 years. The aim was to provide new Finnish …

This study examines spheno‐occipital synchondrosis fusion in the modern American
population and presents age ranges for forensic use. The sample includes 162 modern …

Dental maturity was studied from dental panoramic radiographs of 2523 Belgian children
(1255 girls and 1268 boys) aged 2 to 18 years. The aim was to compare the efficiency of two …

Activating mutations in FGFR3 cause achondroplasia and thanatophoric dysplasia, the most
common human skeletal dysplasias. In these disorders, spinal canal and foramen magnum …

Between 2003 and 2005, the Peştera cu Oase, Romania yielded a largely complete early
modern human cranium, Oase 2, scattered on the surface of a Late Pleistocene hydraulically …