Research shows significant cranial changes in modern Japanese, suggesting implications for sex estimation in forensics and archaeology.
These findings demonstrate that the human cranium has undergone substantial changes over the last century, likely influenced by shifts in environmental, nutritional, and lifestyle factors. They can also contribute to improving the accuracy of sex estimation for unidentified skeletal remains in both forensic and archeological contexts.
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