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Bioarchaeology

the bias by which skeletal age estimates reproduce the age distribution of the reference sample used to build the method rather than that of the studied sample.

In bioarchaeology, age mimicry refers to the bias by which skeletal age estimates reproduce the age distribution of the reference sample used to build the method rather than that of the studied sample. This meaning comes from Bocquet-Appel (1982) in Journal of Human Evolution.[1]

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Bocquet-Appel, J., & Masset, C. (1982). Farewell to paleodemography. Journal of Human Evolution, 11(4), 321-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0047-2484(82)80023-7

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