Suspect Identities“No two fingerprints are alike,” or so it goes. For nearly a hundred years fingerprints have represented definitive proof of individual identity in our society. We trust them to tell us who committed a crime, whether a criminal record exists, and how to resolve questions of disputed identity. |
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... papillary ridges . As the seventeenth - century anatomist Nehemiah Grew pointed out , all the discovery of fingerprints required was " taking the pains " to look closely at one's own fingertips . However , just noticing papillary ridges ...
... papillary ridges . The Dutch anatomist Govard Bidloo published an illustration of the papil- lary ridges of the thumb in his Anatomy of the Human Body ( 1685 ) , and Marcello Malpighi , one of the founders of embryology , described ...
... papillary ridges were vestigial remnants of humans ' tree - dwelling days . " Individual varia- tions , no longer discouraged , " Wilder wrote , " tend to increase , and that which was once a necessary and vital arrangement of the papillary ...
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Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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