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

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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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