Forensic anthropology and the concept of race: if races don't exist, why are forensic anthropologists so good at identifying them?

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  1992

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  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

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  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Law, Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1016/0277-9536(92)90086-6PMID 1738862
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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