The value of botany, palynology, mycology & pedology in criminal investigation Seminar

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Over about the last twenty years, disciplines such as botany, zoology, mycology, and soil science, have contributed greatly in criminal investigations where molecular, and other more conventional methods, fail to help enquiries. Frequently, the natural sciences provide the only forensic evidence in a criminal investigation. Like all biological studies, findings are probabilistic but the complexity, yet clarity, of results invariably obviate the need for statistical analysis. An outline of the approaches used in a number of criminal investigations will be given, with case histories to demonstrate how quantitative and other data have helped to gain convictions in serious crime.