Francis Galton’s Conclusion on finger prints
This discussion as two parts. Be sure to address each for full
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> *: In 1892, Francis Galton wrote his book titled Finger Prints. In this
> study, Galton reported that after examining and comparing 40,000
> fingerprints he found no matches. This is the basis for our belief that we
> will not find two people with the same print. How reliable is this
> conclusion? If a match is found, what would this mean to forensic science
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> *: Galton theorized that the following classes of people had unique
> Jews, negroes, English, and Welsh were considered races and had unique
> fingerprints according to their race. b. According to Galton (1892) “…the
> measurements of the ridge-interval gave the same results in the
> art-students and in the science-students, and I have prints of eminent
> thinkers and of the eminent statesmen that can be matched by those of
> congenital idiots. No indications of temperament, character, or ability are
> to be found in finger marks, so far as I have been able to discover” (p.
> 197). Why do you think Galton wanted to test these groups? What benefit
> have we realized from the results of this part of his thesis? Galton, F.
(1892). Finger Prints. New York City, New York: MacMillan**Note**: You can
> read more about Galton by visiting **http://www.galton.org/*
> <http://www.galton.org/>
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Francis Galton’s Conclusion
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Francis Galton’s Finger Prints conclusion that fingerprints have no matches is reliable since a person’s fingerprints are a unique marvelous complex pattern. Galton insisted that a person identifying whether the fingerprints are similar should look attentively to the minutia of the fingerprints. This minutia of the fingerprints includes the forks and islets in the ridges and they are uniquely different from any person. Francis Galton also stated that a person’s fingerprints are persistent over time from their early youth, advanced………………….
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