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Science 1 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5595, pp. 942 - 943
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5595.942b
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Going Head-to-Head Over Boas's Data

Constance Holden

Studying skull dimensions is commonplace in forensics and paleoanthropology. But two new papers offering diametrically opposed analyses of a classic study by Franz Boas suggest that the technique is still controversial for many anthropologists entwined in the ongoing debate over the relation among genes, environment, and race.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)