Browsing Research Articles (Anatomy) by Subject "Sex determination"

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Assessment of the repeatability of pubic and ischial measurements

Steyn, Maryna; Becker, Piet J.; L’Abbé, Ericka Noelle; Scholtz, Yvette; Myburgh, Y. (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2011-08)

Forensic anthropologists frequently use measurements of the human skeleton to determine sex and ancestry. Since the establishment of the Daubert criteria of admissibility of scientific evidence to court, methodologies ...
Geometric morphometric assessment of sexually dimorphic characteristics of the distal humerus

Vance, Veronica Liane Wanek; Steyn, Maryna (Elsevier, 2013-10)

A number of recent studies investigated the use of morphological characteristics of the distal humerus to estimate the sex of unknown individuals. Using visual assessment, accuracies ranging from 74% to more than 90% were ...
Nonmetric sex determination from the distal and posterior humerus in black and white South Africans

Vance, Veronica Liane Wanek; Steyn, Maryna; L'Abbe, Ericka Noelle (Wiley Blackwell, 2011-05)

The successful identification of human skeletal remains relies on proven diagnostic techniques for sex determination. This research utilized 608 individuals from South Africa (420 males, 188 females) to conduct a blind ...

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