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Note to moderator: Read the answerlines for the first and second parts carefully. Answer the following about forensic anthropology, for 10 points each.
[10e] Forensic anthropologists use the Phenice method to examine a pelvis to help ascertain this trait of a deceased person. The hominin fossils “Lucy” and “Turkana Boy” are usually assumed to [emphasize] differ with regard to this trait.
ANSWER: sex [or anatomical sex; or biological sex; or estimated sex; or sex assigned at birth; or maleness; or femaleness; or intersex status; accept gender though the field today typically treats sex and gender as distinct; prompt on height or size or stature or width or weight by asking “what other trait correlated with that one?”]
[10m] Forensic anthropologists’ involvement in US court cases is often subject to the Daubert standard, which governs whether their contributions have this property. So-called “fruit of the poisonous tree” [emphasize] lack this property.
ANSWER: admissibility [or legal admissibility; or evidentiary admissibility; accept answers indicating that their contributions are admissible or can be admitted as evidence in court; prompt on evidence by asking “with what property?”; prompt on answers indicating that evidence can be used or is usable; prompt on expertise or any underlined portion of expert witnesses’ testimony by asking “with what property?”; prompt on answers that mention the exclusionary rule by asking “what term applies to a thing that rule does not exclude?”]
[10h] A Forensic Anthropology Center in this city employed Steve Ousley and Richard Jantz, who created the statistical software FORDISC. William Bass started a pioneering lab for decomposition research in this city.
ANSWER: Knoxville, Tennessee [accept University of Tennessee, Knoxville] (Bass’s facility is colloquially called the “Body Farm.”)
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