Understanding race and human variation: why forensic anthropologists are good at identifying race.

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Multivariate analyses of craniometric data support Sauer's hypothesis that there are morphological differences between American whites and blacks and show that humans can be accurately classified into geographic origin using craniometrics even though there is overlap among groups.

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