Question

During your internship with the medical examiner's office, you observe the ME attempt to identify an unknown individual based on skeletal remains. The ME asserts confidently that the deceased was of Asian or Native American ancestry. How does she know this, based only on the skeleton?

Answer 1

Answer:

In East Asians and their descendant the individual has shovel-shaped incisors, a heritable trait often found

Explanation:  

The medical examiner is a trained pathologist who investigates the cause of death, the death is occurred due to some unusual circumstances done by the postmortem of the dead body. The duties of a ME is dependent on the place.  

There are so many duties that are performed by ME:

• To investigate the human body after death and try to find out the cause.  

• Examining the dead body

• Study the cells, tissue and internal processing of the body

• Maintain death records.