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Fingerprints Were Never Just Identity Stamps
Fingerprints Were Never Just Identity StampsFingerprints are widely treated as identity markers in crime work and biometrics. A parallel science called dermatoglyphics, named in the 1920s, also chased race, disease, and even a historical Down-syndrome label from the same ridges. This episode stays inside five verified sources: a 2015 PNAS longitudinal recognition paper, Asen’s CMAJ framing, Rut…
- Longitudinal study of fingerprint recognition
- Fingerprints and science
- 196701000-00002- Dermatoglyphics and the Persistence of ‘Mongolism’
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- doi.org
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