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Ancestry Estimation Perpetuates Racism, White Supremacy Binghamton University, February 24, 2021 Ancestry estimation — a method used by forensic anthropologists to determine ancestral origin by analyzing bone structures — is rooted in “race science” and perpetuates white supremacy, according to a new paper by a forensic anthropologist at Binghamton University, State University of New York. By themselves, bones seem somewhat uniform to the untrained eye. They lack the traits we so often use to categorize fellow humans: hair texture, the shape of nose and eye, skin pigmentation. Forensi...

Ancestry estimation -- a method used by forensic anthropologists to determine ancestral origin by analyzing bone structures -- is rooted in ''race science'' and perpetuates white supremacy, according to a new paper by a forensic anthropologist at Binghamton University, State University of New York.