#mixed rece

[kittenmilk]

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[arandomthinker]

What if scientific racial identification of skulls is sometimes incorrect?

Recently, due to the nature of certain crimes, reports have come out stating how easy it is to identify the ethnicity of a victim by visually examining the skull.  Sure, they can make a strong case as a result of years of studying human skulls. But, my random thinking makes me wonder if those standards of identification still hold true.  What would the skull of a mixed race person look like?  Would there be signs of mixed characteristics or would the skull retain the characteristics of one race or the other?

Please don’t assume that there is any racial bias on my part.  I’m a little bit black, brown, red, and white myself.  I’m just curious as to how I (or someone like me) would be categorized. Or, if there would be changes that could be detected and identified in a skull with little or no DNA available.

Can we be sure that the skulls identified as different points in our evolution aren’t just changes that occurred as a result of racial mixing?