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Fun Fingerprint
Facts
- Chinese potters, over
2000 years ago, put their thumb print on jars,
vases, and casks to establish ownership.
- Sir Francis Galton,
Charles Darwin's cousin, established the scientific
validity of fingerprint comparison in 1893.
He proved that fingerprints were unique, unalterable,
and easily classifiable, opening the door for
use by police departments all over the world.
- Maternal (identical,
or same egg) twins have similar but not the
same fingerprints. As a matter of fact, comparative
fingerprint similarity was established in the
1970's to help differentiate same egg twins
from separate egg (fraternal) twins. A mathematical
formula was created (a coefficient of similarity)
that showed a .5 response for same egg twins,
.3 for separate egg twins (or any brother, sister
comparison) and .1 for any two people at random.
Apparently, children of the same parents have
significant similarity to each others' fingerprints,
but not as much as maternal twins. This information
could be important for kidney transplants, etc.
- Both the hand and foot
surfaces, not just the fingertips, contain dermatoglyphic
(fingerprint type) markings.
- Doctors and other scientists
are studying fingerprints to help diagnose disease
early on. They have discovered that different
fingerprint profiles are associated with different
physical and behavioral conditions.
- The FBI has been unsuccessful
at decoding physical characteristics from a
set or individual fingerprint. You can imagine
why this would be of interest to law enforcement.
If they could lift a fingerprint from the murder
weapon and, without a witness, issue an accurate
all points bulletin, what an asset that would
be. So far, no go. Other traits, such as leadership,
creativity, communication skills of different
types, etc. do correlate with certain combinations
of fingerprint patterns.
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