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    Are there any differences between human male and female fingerprints? What are they?

    Question #60315. Asked by TheAlphaWolf. (Nov 01 05 3:47 PM)


    my_baby_love

    		Every fingerprint is unique, there are no common characteristics.

    Nov 01 05, 4:57 PM
    satguru

    		Yes, definitely no hearts or flowers on female fingertips, but their doodles are generally different, with men being more geometrical. Just an aside...

    Nov 01 05, 5:21 PM
    JoshCaleb12

    		Well, the following website seems to be saying that there are differences... but, with all the technical gobbledygook... I'll be darned if I can actually understand what it is talking about... *shudder*

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7755377&dopt=Abstract

    Nov 01 05, 7:46 PM
    TheAlphaWolf

    		Hmm... Well, I can't see the page. I was just asking because I read that gay men's fingerprints look more like women's than hetero men, so obviously they would have to be different and I just wanted other sources.

    Nov 02 05, 8:51 PM
    lanfranco

    		Well, Alpha, I think you must have been looking at an article similar to the one mentioned on this site (scroll down to "Prints Put the Finger on Gays"). However, since that piece apparently appeared in 1998, and I haven't heard a thing about it since, my guess is that subsequent research didn't entirely support it.

    On the other hand, the site's brief description of the article mentions possible prenatal hormonal influences on sexual orientation (and maybe fingerprints), and there has been some recent research about that. An L.A. Times Magazine story discussed it some months ago.


    http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/pressgene.html

    Nov 02 05, 9:27 PM
    lanfranco

    		Sorry, that was actually a story in the Boston "Globe" Sunday Magazine.

    Nov 02 05, 9:31 PM
    peasypod

    		I found the link that Josh had. I can't make heads or tails out of it either, but there seems to be nothing to do with sexual orientations, though. Just higher ridge patterns for males.

    Nov 02 05, 11:15 PM
    JoshCaleb12

    		Thanks, peasy... I'm glad someone made sense of that site... *grin*

    Nov 03 05, 12:45 AM
    TheAlphaWolf

    		Hmm. Many scientific findings aren't heard about later so I don't know about that.
    Thanks!

    Nov 03 05, 6:59 PM

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