Sex assessment using the proximal tibia.
The proximal end of the human tibia is sexually dimorphic. Tibial condyles from 100 individuals in the Hamann-Todd Collection were measured. Regression equations retrodicted known sex with 86-95% accuracy. A test sample of 20 individuals also from the Hamann-Todd Collection was classified with 85-100% accuracy. A sample of 20 prehistoric individuals provisionally sexed by using crania and innominate bones was classified with 85-100% agreement. Thus, the proximal tibia may be useful in determining the sex of a skeleton.
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Museum of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia 65211.
D005260:Female; D005580:Fossils; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013977:Tibia / Q000033:anatomy & histology*