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George W. Gill
George W. Gill is an American anthropologist, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wyoming and is "widely recognized as an expert in skeletal biology".
==Career==
In the late 1980s, partly in response to demands from American forensic anthropology organizations to scrutinize methods of racial identification in order to ensure accuracy in legal cases, Gill tested, supported, and developed craniofacial anthropometric and other means of estimating the racial origins of skeletal remains. He found that the employment of multiple criteria can yield very high rates of accuracy, and even that individual methods can be accurate more than 80 percent of the time.
Gill cites these findings in arguing against the prevailing tendency among American anthropologists to treat human races as social constructs. Gill suggests that "race denial" can stem from overstatements of the importance of clinal variation among human phenotypes, and from "politically motivated censorship" in the mistaken but "politically correct" belief that "race promotes racism". Gill argues that "we can often ''function'' within systems that we do not believe in": Categories can have practical utility, even if they also seem conceptually problematic.〔
Gill served on a ''NOVA''-sponsored panel in which he and five others debated the reality of race. Among Gill's opponents was American anthropologist C. Loring Brace〔—a fellow plaintiff in the Kennewick Man case〔—who maintains that the term "race" is not warranted by "a biological entity".
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