{"id":61086,"date":"2021-07-15T18:52:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61086"},"modified":"2021-07-15T18:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T18:52:47","slug":"study-lets-replace-ancestry-in-forensics-with-something-more-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61086","title":{"rendered":"Study: Let\u2019s Replace \u2018Ancestry\u2019 in Forensics With Something More Accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ncsu.edu\/2021\/07\/forensics-and-population-affinity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Study: Let\u2019s Replace \u2018Ancestry\u2019 in Forensics With Something More Accurate<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ncsu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina State University News<\/a><br \/>\nRaleigh, North Carolina<br \/>\n2021-07-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicscience.ncsu.edu\/people\/wmshipma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Matt Shipman<\/strong><\/a>, Research Communications Lead<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ncsu.edu\/2021\/07\/forensics-and-population-affinity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ross-population-affinity-2021-HEADER.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study<\/a> finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both the fluidity of populations and how historical events have shaped our skeletal characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forensic_anthropology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forensic anthropology<\/a> is a science, and we need to use terms consistently,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/bio.sciences.ncsu.edu\/people\/ahross\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ann Ross<\/a>, corresponding author of the study and a professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University. \u201cOur study both highlights our discipline\u2019s challenges in discussing issues of ancestral origin consistently, and suggests that focusing on population affinity would be a way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Race is a social construct \u2013 there\u2019s no scientific basis for it. Population affinity, in the context of forensic anthropology, is determined by the skeletal characteristics associated with groups of people. Those characteristics are shaped by historic events and forces such as gene flow, migration, and so on. What\u2019s more, these population groups can be very fluid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire news release <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ncsu.edu\/2021\/07\/forensics-and-population-affinity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study: Let\u2019s Replace \u2018Ancestry\u2019 in Forensics With Something More Accurate North Carolina State University News Raleigh, North Carolina 2021-07-14 Matt Shipman, Research Communications Lead A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8],"tags":[23438,31618,31619,31620,31629,31628,10901,31627],"class_list":["post-61086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-ancestry","tag-ann-h-ross","tag-ann-ross","tag-forensic-anthropology","tag-journal-of-forensic-sciences","tag-matt-shipman","tag-north-carolina-state-university","tag-north-carolina-state-university-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61089,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61086\/revisions\/61089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}