“…Presently, some studies have peaked to over 90% accuracy in ancestry estimation, using new approaches such as geometric morphometrics, but these methods as applied to sex estimation have yielded a much lower accuracy of ~70% (Fortes de Oliveira et al, 2012;Jiménez-Arenas & Esquivel, 2013;Murphy & Garvin, 2018;Webster & David Sheets, 2010;Zelditch, Swiderski, & David Sheets, 2012). Our study however harnesses an innovative method-machine learning (Bejdová, Dupej, Krajíček, Velemínská, & Velemínský, 2018;Bewes, Low, Morphett, Pate, & Henneberg, 2019;Gao, Geng, & Yang, 2018).…”