DNA: Beyond Criminal Justice
Sean Carroll, like many in the forensic arts, works on the cutting edge of the science of identity.
But instead of identifying distinctions in DNA that make individuals or suspects different, Carroll studies changes in DNA that make entire species different.
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A (R)evolution in Crime-fighting
The problem with the traditional "photofit" process is that the human brain recognizes faces holistically, not as a collection of isolated features.
In the Dark Ages of policing, an eye-witness to a crime would be asked to reconstruct the perpetrator's likeness, jigsaw-like, from a daunting selection of isolated eyebrows, noses, and haircuts. This low-tech process tended to produce bizarre and inaccurate results.
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