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Patterns
have been noticed on people’s fingers
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for
many years. In the mid 1600s, Marcello
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Malpighi first described the patterns of ridges
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and
pores on the tips on the fingers, as part of a
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study
on the human skin.
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In
1823, the physiologist Jan Evangelista
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Purkinhe described whorls, ellipses and
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triangles
formed by the lines of the ridges and
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grooves
on the surface of the skin on the
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fingers.
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