Comparative morphology, dealing with the diversity of form and shape, and functional morphology, the study of the relationship between the structure and the function of an organism's parts, are both important subdisciplines in biological research. Virtual anthropology (VA) contributes to comparative morphology by taking advantage of technological innovations, and it also offers new opportunitie...

The study of sexual dimorphism is important clinically, in forensic anthropology and craniometry. Therefore this study was design to identify the sexual dimorphisms in cranial dimensions among three ethnic groups of North-Eastern Nigeria and to compare this study with other similar studies. Cranial length, width, height and circumference in Fulani, Tangale and Tera ethnic groups were linearly m...

background: construction work (building houses, roads, workplaces, and repairing and maintaining infrastructures) is a dangerous land-based job. this includes many hazardous tasks and conditions such as working at the following conditions: height, excavation, noise, dust, power tools and equipment. construction work has been increased in developed and underdeveloped countries over the past few ...

in many jurisdictions, psychiatric problems are intended for commutation. therefore, a forensic psychiatrist has an important role in detection of malingering. while several studies evaluate diagnostic tests, it is less known what symptoms are more likely to be imitated by malingerers.in a prospective study 45 malingerers, who were diagnosed according to interviews by two forensic psychiatrists...

We introduce a special issue of Current Anthropology developed from a Wenner-Gren symposium held in Teresópolis, Brazil, in 2010 that was about the past, present, and future of biological anthropology. Our goal was to understand from a comparative international perspective the contexts of genesis and development of physical/biological anthropology around the world. While biological anthropology...

Abstract Background Sex estimation is vital in establishing an accurate biological profile from the human skeleton, as sex influences analysis of other elements both Physical and Forensic Anthropology Legal Medicine. The present study was conducted to analyze differences between sacrum coccyx length based on measurements calculated with computed tomography (CT) images. One hundred case images (...

A large-scale study of facial soft tissue depths of Caucasian adults was conducted. Over a 2-years period, 967 Caucasian subjects of both sexes, varying age and varying body mass index (BMI) were studied. A user-friendly and mobile ultrasound-based system was used to measure, in about 20min per subject, the soft tissue thickness at 52 facial landmarks including most of the landmarks used in pre...

1.1 FAE a need in nowadays everyday forensic practice Forensic Age Estimation (FAE) defines an expertise in forensic medicine which aims to define in the most accurate way the chronological age of person of an unknown age involved in judicial or legal proceedings. The term “estimation” defines more precisely than other as “diagnosis” the real limits inherent to this expertise. The state of the ...

In this study, we investigated, for the fijirst time from a forensic anthropological perspective, question of mixed ancestry estimation modern Filipinos with geographic origins in Philippines. We derived estimates continental using craniometrics four sources: new documented collection current signifijicance Manila North Cemetery; Howells cranial series representing sample unclaimed individuals bu...