I suspect many fingerprints could be nearly identical when you are born. The thing is, as you age you get different creases across the prints. Accidents happen that cause other changes. Basically the uniqueness of your life is what causes adult fingerprints to all be different.
However it would be interesting to see a study on whether or not childhood fingerprints are equally as unique. It seems likely that a child’s prints could be similar or even exactly match the prints of one of their parents, when that parent was a child?
Ah that’s cool, so even environmental factors before birth contribute to the uniqueness. But unfortunately this also means I can’t commit a crime and then blame my clone…
Just commit the crime, amputate and destroy your hands, and have your clones grafted on to you. If your clone can’t have your fingerprints, you’ll just have to take his.
Now I’m imagining a coming-of-age magical realism movie starring a child who discovers that a mysterious ancient phone, the last heirloom of their deceased grandparent, can only be unlocked by their fingerprint at their particular age.
Haha that would be awesome. Also makes you wonder about other movies where a family member was only able to unlock a magical ability before they reached a certain age. I seem to recall some stories where it was unusual that an “older” member was able to be able to do something? Never seen it tied to fingerprints before, but it seems like it could make sense.
Fingerprint analysis rarely ever overlays pictures for exact matches. There are certain features within just abojt every fingerprint that are easily recognisable. You can find them, store the type of feature and their relative distance to the other features, and use that to determine a match.
Fingerprints grow back, so while it’s possible that tiny scars and cuts will mess up some analysis points, you can still get a match based on the features you can find.
Wikipedia lists a bunch of them:
These so-called minutiae exist in the ridge pattern on your finger. If you start looking at your own fingerprint, you’ll be sure to find loads of them.
As for parent/child relationships: I don’t think we have any proof of such a connection. Even identical twins have different fingerprints. Fingerprints aren’t just a generic feature, there’s more to them, like the environmental factors inside the womb.
I suspect many fingerprints could be nearly identical when you are born. The thing is, as you age you get different creases across the prints. Accidents happen that cause other changes. Basically the uniqueness of your life is what causes adult fingerprints to all be different.
However it would be interesting to see a study on whether or not childhood fingerprints are equally as unique. It seems likely that a child’s prints could be similar or even exactly match the prints of one of their parents, when that parent was a child?
Fingerprints are fairly unique, and form before birth. This article goes into it reasonably well.
Ah that’s cool, so even environmental factors before birth contribute to the uniqueness. But unfortunately this also means I can’t commit a crime and then blame my clone…
Just commit the crime, amputate and destroy your hands, and have your clones grafted on to you. If your clone can’t have your fingerprints, you’ll just have to take his.
The perfect crime…
Now I’m imagining a coming-of-age magical realism movie starring a child who discovers that a mysterious ancient phone, the last heirloom of their deceased grandparent, can only be unlocked by their fingerprint at their particular age.
Haha that would be awesome. Also makes you wonder about other movies where a family member was only able to unlock a magical ability before they reached a certain age. I seem to recall some stories where it was unusual that an “older” member was able to be able to do something? Never seen it tied to fingerprints before, but it seems like it could make sense.
Fingerprint analysis rarely ever overlays pictures for exact matches. There are certain features within just abojt every fingerprint that are easily recognisable. You can find them, store the type of feature and their relative distance to the other features, and use that to determine a match.
Fingerprints grow back, so while it’s possible that tiny scars and cuts will mess up some analysis points, you can still get a match based on the features you can find.
Wikipedia lists a bunch of them:
These so-called minutiae exist in the ridge pattern on your finger. If you start looking at your own fingerprint, you’ll be sure to find loads of them.
As for parent/child relationships: I don’t think we have any proof of such a connection. Even identical twins have different fingerprints. Fingerprints aren’t just a generic feature, there’s more to them, like the environmental factors inside the womb.