Fingerprints are among the most distinctive features of human biology, serving as enduring identifiers for individuals and as windows into genetic and developmental processes. The three major ...

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ALTHOUGH the heritability of the patterns on fingers and palms was pointed out by Sir Francis Galton 1 in 1892 and soon put to wide use in physical anthropology, little agreement has been reached to ...