#tw bones

My mother is currently obsessed with Bones the tv show. I watched it a lot when I was a kid, so I thought I'd probably enjoy watching it again with her. But I've since studied forensic anthropology and I. I want to strangle the lead whenever she makes a leap to certain conclusions with just a glance at the bones of the remains they're working with. You can get a likely gender by looking at certain markers, but(and I'm quoting my teacher here) it's really ethically dubious to just outright state "these bones belong to a man". Also. Complete obliteration of sutures in the skull would not belong to a girl in her 20s. Looking at the specific skull they used in an episode, claiming it was a 21 year old, I just. That is a 40yr old at MINIMUM.