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- Bones are like fingerprints to an injury. Flesh heels, but at death bones leave scars and fractures that can allow a pro to easily see what happened to cause the death. - The young baby found not only had broken bones from the death, but also from previous events before death. - The goal of examining a body is to understand who did it, and if not at lest what caused the death. - The flesh is not a good example of determining what and who the bodies is, due to bloating and facial tissue swelling. - One needs to learn the race, gender, age and stature - Determining the sex or gender of a certain body is done with two bones: the pelvis and the skull - Males have a heart shaped pelvis, while females have larger pelvis' made for child birth - Also the skull is determined by the brow size and the shape of the skull. Size of skull also helps in determining - Age can also be determined by the pelvis, because certain bones don't grow until a certain age. - Cranial structures are used to tell the age of the person also. - There are three groupings of race in male, they are negroid, caucasoid, mongoloid - To determine the size of a person measure the femur and place into the formula - Also one can determine a person based on their teeth. - Some deaths are unable to be determined, but they do help to learn for future deaths.