If and How Many 'Races'? The Application of Mixture Modeling to World-Wide Human Craniometric Variation

If and How Many 'Races'? The Application of Mixture Modeling to World-Wide Human Craniometric Variation

Studies in human cranial variation are extensive and widely discussed. While skeletal biologists continue to focus on questions of biological distance and population history, group-specific knowledge is being increasingly used for human identification in medico-legal contexts. The importance of this...

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Main Author: Algee-Hewitt, Bridget Frances Beatrice
Format: Others
Published: Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange 2011
Subjects:
craniometrics
human variation
model-based clustering
finite mixture analysis
forensic anthropology
race
Biological and Physical Anthropology
Statistical Methodology
Online Access:http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1165

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