CRIM 356 Lecture 5: Week 5 Facial Reconstruction
13 May 2016
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The human face: makeup, facial hair, etc: can change the appearance of your face, identical twins: have the same genetic pro le and remarkably similar faces. However, their faces will be slightly different from one another (with age, weight gain, etc. : twins: way to discriminate them is through ngerprints. Facial asymmetry: some individuals have more symmetrical faces than others, very rare to have a perfectly symmetrical face. Sexual dimorphism: it is relatively easy to determine which faces are male and female, in adults. Age related changes: age changes the adult face, through growth: must accommodate second pair of teeth, etc, dealing with a missing child: critical that image that is used is closest to the time child went missing. Week 5 facial reconstruction: face tends to sag; cranial changes at skeletal level: frontal bossing: brow ridge becomes slightly more pronounced, dif cult to tell age and sex in young children.
