A human corpse's biological sex can be determined by examining skeletal features of the skull
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 84/100
Multiple forensic and anthropological studies confirm that biological sex can be reliably estimated by analyzing morphological, metric, and nonmetric skeletal features of the human skull.
Evidence for · 3
Cranial Nonmetric Sexual Dimorphism and Sex Estimation in East and Southeast Asian Individuals
2019 · cited by 27
Demonstrates that cranial nonmetric traits and statistical models can successfully estimate sex with high accuracy.
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More for · 2
Sex Determination Using Human Sphenoid Sinus in a Northeast Iranian Population: A Discriminant Function Analysis
2023 · cited by 5
Finds that sphenoid sinus volume measured via skull imaging serves as a reliable variable for sex determination in forensic contexts.
Exploratory analysis of new craniometric measures for the investigation of biological sex using open-access statistical and machine-learning tools on a cone-beam computed tomography sample.
2024 · cited by 3
Shows that craniometric measurements of the skull correlate strongly with biological sex and enable accurate sex prediction.