How do we identify human remains?
- Written by Jodie Ward, Director, Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research; Forensic DNA Identification Specialist, NSW Health Pathology; Associate Professor, Centre for Forensic Science, University of Technology Sydney
Forensic anthropologists, who analyse skeletal remains, can give us clues to how someone lived and died.from www.shutterstock.comThe recent case of a surgical implant found inside a Queensland crocodile has highlighted the challenges forensic scientists face when trying to identify human remains without much evidence to go on.
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