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**Identification. | **Identification. | ||
**Cause of death (sometimes). | **Cause of death (sometimes). | ||
Male vs. female: | |||
*Subpubic angle (~70 degrees in males, 90-100 degrees in females). | |||
*Shape of pelvic inlet (heart-shaped in male, round in female). | |||
*Shape of angle of mandible (square-ish in male, round in female). | |||
*Size & shape of obturator foramen (small & round in females, large and ovoid in males). | |||
Not useful for male vs. female: | |||
*Femur - femoral neck-shaft angles ''not'' discriminative.<ref name=pmid9643428>{{cite journal |author=Anderson JY, Trinkaus E |title=Patterns of sexual, bilateral and interpopulational variation in human femoral neck-shaft angles |journal=J. Anat. |volume=192 ( Pt 2) |issue= |pages=279–85 |year=1998 |month=February |pmid= |pmc=1467761 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | |||
Notes: | |||
<ref name=pmid19627412>{{cite journal |author=Kranioti EF, Michalodimitrakis M |title=Sexual dimorphism of the humerus in contemporary Cretans--a population-specific study and a review of the literature* |journal=J. Forensic Sci. |volume=54 |issue=5 |pages=996–1000 |year=2009 |month=September |pmid=19627412 |doi=10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01103.x |url=}}</ref> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||