... process. The identification of skeletal remains badly decomposed, or otherwise unidentified human remains, which are important for both legal and humanitarian reasons. Forensic anthropologists apply standard scientific techniques developed in physical anthropology to identify human remains, and to assist in the detection of crime. Forensic anthropologists frequently work in conjunction with forensic pathologists, odontologists, and homicide investigators to identify a decedent, discover evidence ... . A proper and extensive education is required to land a job as a forensic scientist. Cur...

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Section I: Introduction: Sociology is the scientific study of human social relations or group life. Other disciplines within the social sciences including economics, political science, anthropology, and psychology are also concerned with topics that fall within the scope of human society. Sociologists examine the ways in which social structures and institutions such as class, family, community ... , power and social problems such as crime and abuse influence society. Race: The concept of race which is a group with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group is a r...

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... - when he noted a striking analogy between the Americans and the Mongol race, meaning those people of East Asia whom the anthropologists term Mongoloids. Modern physical anthropology has confirmed Humboldt's analogies. Most of the traits they have in common are also found among the mongoloid people all the way from Siberia to Indonesia. Their cheekbones are almost ... 25000 years ago, and perhaps more than 30000 years ago, the time element is no longer cogent. In 250 centuries, even people of common ancestry can develop marked cultural and physical differences. Thus while it is possibl...

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