Are there distinct patterns or characteristics that belong to a nationality/country or race? Like a Russian compared to an Irishman?
2007-05-11 18:08:49 · 8 answers · asked by cpc26ca 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Fingerprints are established through heredity and environmental influences. Children do inherit some fingerprint characteristics from their parents, and identical twins have strong similarities in fingerprints.
Some patterns are more common among certain races, but a fingerprint is not sufficient to identify race.
2007-05-11 18:38:56 · answer #1 · answered by Woody 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, fingerprints are not based on heredity, nor are they able to distinguish ancestry or nationality. Also, identical twins DO NOT have identical fingerprints. They are typically more alike in patterns (# of arches, loops and whorls) than non-related people, but certainly not identical. Fingerprints are a result of in utero development and environment.
You can read an interesting article about prints in The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society about twins and their prints. It's a 2003 article called, On The Similarity of Identical Twin Fingerprints.
Hope this helps.
2007-05-12 23:36:38 · answer #2 · answered by Travis A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the fingerprints on a person's fingers are completely random and have nothing to do with nationality.
2007-05-12 04:48:18 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Lecter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, every single print that had ever been is totally individual
2007-05-12 09:58:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there are no patterns whether your from Hong Kong or my a$$.
2007-05-12 01:16:59 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Never.
2007-05-12 08:40:40 · answer #6 · answered by manjunath_empeetech 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't believe so.
2007-05-12 01:13:55 · answer #7 · answered by Loti 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. they are all unique
2007-05-12 01:16:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋