He is also credited with starting the first permance study of fingerprint patterns over time.
But in the late 19th and early 20th century there was a thriving research program seeking to correlate fingerprint patterns with the world's ethnic groups.
Today of course the ethnic correlations of fingerprint patterns have been largely forgotten.
We use seven different fingerprint patterns for identification purposes.
Some of that light is reflected toward a digital imaging sensor that determines the fingerprint pattern.
Galton pointed out that there were specific types of fingerprint patterns.
The different types of fingerprint patterns, such as arch, loop and whorl, will be described below.
It seems likely that local cell movement variations in each embryo would be a cause of somewhat different fingerprint patterns.
Her pelt was also olive, but marbled with whorls of brown like fingerprint patterns.
However, parts of the fingerprint patterns were similar among the related biovars of a single species.