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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... whorls appeared . The fingers were numbered 1 through 10 , beginning with the left little finger and proceeding from ... whorls ) to 32/32 ( ten whorls ) . My prints , for exam- ple , would have a primary classification of 27/28 , since ...
... whorls and loops , Féré argued , rep- resented a higher stage of evolutionary development adapted to the ... Whorls represented the triumph of form over function . Hepburn supported his argument by appealing to the primate hierarchy ...
... whorl was inherited from another whorl . Statis- tically , one might be able to show more whorls in the children of par- ents with whorls than in children of parents without . Galton's tripar- tite classification scheme , however , was ...
Contents
Jekylls and Hydes | 1 |
Measuring the Criminal Body | 32 |
Native Prints | 60 |
Copyright | |
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