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.com
The 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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