Ancestry estimation in forensic anthropology relies on the complex relationship between genetics, population history, skeletal form, and social constructs. Our understanding of these interactions, as well as advances in appropriate statistical frameworks, have allowed the development of accurate classification methods, both metric and nonmetric, utilizing the cranium, postcranium, and dentition.

Summary of how measurement science can be applied to digital forensics investigations to achieve reliability.

Blow flies are the most common insect associated with the decomposition of a human body. They are responsible for consuming most of the soft tissues of a body in only a few days.