Posted on 07/07/2010 10:03:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Research from North Carolina State University offers a new means of determining the sex of skeletal human remains -- an advance that may have significant impacts in the wake of disasters, the studying of ancient remains and the criminal justice system. Historically, forensic scientists have been able to determine the sex of skeletal remains by visually evaluating the size and shape of the pelvis, or os coxa... Ross and her colleague Dr. Joan Bytheway have now used three-dimensional imaging technology to effectively quantify the specific characteristics of the os coxa that differentiate males from females. Bytheway is an assistant professor of forensic science at Sam Houston State University. The researchers found more than 20 anatomical "landmarks" on the os coxa that can be used to determine a body's sex. Finding so many landmarks is important, Ross says, because it means that the sex of a body can be ascertained even if only a small fragment of the pelvis can be found. In other words, even if only 15 percent of the pelvis is recovered, it is likely that at least a few of the landmarks can be found on that fragment.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.ncsu.edu ...
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These ID techniques look trivial now, but just wait until the Muzzie homicide bombers start going off in every major US city, while Zero golfs. |
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"Nope, this one ain't having sex either!"
This violates the rights of the Transgendered.
Thank goodness for the hip test. Now we know for sure.
Back when I was dating her, she lied with her lips, I tell you.
[’Civ reaches for his psych meds]
Well, not *now*...
I wonder if they checked the mandible...
That’s going to hound her throughout her career. Maybe she needs to take the name of some pleasingly plump older gentleman. Or me for that matter.
“Lie to me baby, Lie! Lie! Lie!”
*kof-kof*
;oþ
I know her.
Yep, unusual name. She’s been working in forensic anthropology, but has struggled to get out of the shadow of Dennis Dirkmaat at Mercyhurst.
Nice lady. Smart. Glad to see her work published.
very funny.
hmmmmm.....what’ya s’pose they’d find for “Lady” Gaga?
“I like big Hips and I can not lie”
Wow
front AND rear airbags!
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