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Originally Posted by Jetée
In practice, the application of such forensic criteria ultimately comes down to whether the skull "looks Negroid," "Caucasoid," or "Mongoloid" in the eye of each U.S. forensic practitioner.
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Exactly. One forensic anthropologist might look at my bones and say that I was Asian, while another might say that I was white. They would both be right, and wrong... but neither category is helpful in identifying what I really am, because there is no one category that would fit me (at least not in North American labels for phenotypic characteristics).
According to genetic work-ups of both me and ktspktsp (done through my university department, which has one of the strongest biological anthropology programs in the country--I am a cultural anthro, but I pay attention to their research), our children will have ancestral genes from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Try figuring out their bones, or anything else phenotypically.
