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has asymmetry been used to sex Neandertal skeletons?

Posted by RodMcGuire on 21 Jul 2012 at 16:43 GMT

If asymmetry was assumed to be caused by male weapon use then it may have been used to assign sex to Neandertal (partial) skeletons. This would really mess up determining how male or female hide scraping was.

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