Sex Estimation of the Human Skeleton: History, Methods, and Emerging Techniques

ISBN-13: 9780128157671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 500 str.

Alexandra R. Klales

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction to sex estimation 1. A history of sex estimation of human skeletal remains 2. Practitioner preferences for sex estimation from human skeletal remains 3. Applications of sex estimation in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and forensic anthropology 4. The confusion between biological sex and gender and potential implications of misinterpretations 5. Effect of sex misclassification on the skeletal biological profile

Part 2 Methods for sex estimation Section A Morphological 6. Pelvis morphology 7. Adult sex estimation from cranial morphoscopic traits 8. Analyses of the postcranial skeleton for sex estimation 9. Parturition markers and skeletal sex estimation  Section B Metric 10. Dentition in the estimation of sex 11. Metric methods for estimating sex utilizing the pelvis 12. Sexual dimorphism variation in Fordisc samples Section C Statistics & databases 13. Statistical and machine learning approaches to sex estimation 14. Subadult sex estimation 15. DSP: A probabilistic approach to sex estimation free from population specificity using os coxae measurements 16. MorphoPASSE: Morphological pelvis and skull sex estimation program

Part 3 Current considerations/topics 17. Factors of population variation in sex estimation methodology 18. Secular change 19. The effects of skeletal asymmetry on accurate sex classification 20. Cognitive bias in sex estimation: The influence of context on forensic decision-making 21. Sex determination using DNA and its impact on biological anthropology 22. The application of medical imaging to the anthropological estimation of sex