Doug Ryan, a forensic anthropologist, visited the 8th grade GT students and gave them a valuable lesson in identifying skulls. The students learned that a person's race can be determined by the shape of their eye sockets, the sex by bones on the back of the head as well as brow ridges, the height by the length of certain bones, and much more! Mr. Ryan teaches at Northwest Vista College and is employed by the San Antonio Police Department’s Crime Lab Investigation Unit.

Mr. Ryan points out skull features to students		A forensic anthropologist helps identify a person from skeletal remains and may also be able to determine how and when that person died.
Spaces in the pelvis determine whether it came from a male or female		Mr. Ryan shows the suture lines in the skull, which helps determine how old the person was.
Mr. Ryan and Ms. Follis pull a student's fingerprints from a glass		GT Students show off their fingerprints

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