Articles for tag: Biometric identity, Fingerprints, Genetic variation, Human uniqueness

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What Makes Our Fingerprints Unique?

Suhail Ahmed

  Hold your hand up to the light and look at your fingertips. Those looping, swirling ridges feel so ordinary that it is easy to forget they are among the most distinctive things about you. For more than a century, fingerprints have been a silent witness in courtrooms, border checkpoints, and police files, treated almost ...