The 'Race' of a Skeleton May Be Determined by a Forensic

question 56

Multiple Choice

The 'race' of a skeleton may be determined by a forensic anthropologist, but doing so is problematic (and the subject of debate among scholars) because:

• A) skeletons are of little use to us when trying to classify living people.
• B) the focus on the skeleton diverts us from attending to more relevant features of a person's life, like national origin, occupation, education, and so on.
• C) Actually, it is never problematic and it is not the subject of debate.
• D) doing so perpetuates the myth that human beings are divisible into bounded sub-species
• E) All of the answers (except the 'never' one) are correct.

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