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Phenice method

A non-metric morphological sex estimation technique published by Thomas Phenice in 1969, based on scoring three traits of the pubic bone: the ventral arc, the sub-pubic concavity, and the medial aspect of the ischiopubic ramus. Combined accuracy on the Terry Collection was 96 per cent.

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