Forensic age estimation in human skeletal remains: Current concepts and future directions

Legal Medicine - Tập 12 Số 1 - Trang 1-7 - 2010
Daniel Franklin1
1Centre for Forensic Science, The University of Western Australia, M420, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, WA, Australia

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