There is not a single person on earth with the same pattern on their fingers as yours. Dermatoglyphics scientists can tell from the patterns on the fingers not only about a person's predisposition to disease, but also about his professional qualities.
Dermatoglyphics. Start
The person who stood at the origins of dermatoglyphics (this is how the science of patterns on the skin is called) was Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton. He was a scientist with a truly unbridled passion for science and research. Kinship with Darwin defined Galton's scientific path, he was a passionate adherent of his brother's theory, and therefore sought to prove that evolution not only did not end, but also needed correction. Galton is also credited as the founder of eugenics, which bore terrible fruit in the racial theory of Nazi Germany.
Galton came to dermatoglyphics after, in early 1888, the Royal Institution scientific society commissioned him to review the then fashionable bertillonage - a method of identifying criminals, which was based on measurements of various parts of the body.
Galton had a broad view of things and also mentioned fingerprinting as an identification method. On May 25 of the same year, the scientist read his report, in which he presented his vision of the problem.
Four years later, Galton had already published a book on fingerprints - "Finger prints". This is how dermatoglyphics appeared in the scientific world. However, it must be said that the term itself appeared later, in 1926, at the 42nd Congress of the American Association of Anatomists. It translates as "leather engraving".
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Arcs, loops, curls
Dermatoglyphics is a relatively young and rapidly developing discipline. According to Alexei Vladimirovich Vlasov, chairman of the board of the International Association of Dermatoglyphics, new personnel constantly come to dermatoglyphics. The study of human prints helps to determine the character, temperament, type of behavioral adaptation of a person in society.
In dermatoglyphics, there are three main types of patterns: loop, arc and curl. It is by their ratio on the fingers that scientists can draw certain conclusions about the carrier of these patterns.
About a third of people have loops on their fingers - patterns that resemble a lasso, usually directed towards the little finger. These people are the carriers of the norm in terms of socialization, they adapt well to life situations, are benevolent, moderately secretive, and moderately frank.
People who have curls on their fingers are constantly trying to change the world, they can make an ingenious discovery. These are people with great potential, but often they find themselves out of place in their time or their environment, they can show inadequacy. According to the psychiatrist and psychophysiologist Nikolai Bogdanov, "it is the one who is considered a 'jerk' that most often has curls on the pads of the fingers."
People with predominant arcs on the fingers are purposeful, self-confident. They know that problems cannot be circumvented, they must be addressed immediately. Such people are not shy about problem-solving methods. They are practically not stressed. However, their weakness lies in their weak ability for psychological combinatorial skills and in weak adaptation. They are more swordsmen than jewelers.
It should also be said that the poorer a person's dermatoglyphics, the more difficult it is for him to adapt in society, the more problems he has to face.
Applied value
It is clear that any systematized knowledge requires applied application. In dermatoglyphics, everything is fine in this regard - it began with practice - Galton collaborated with criminologists and participated in the compilation of fingerprint files. Interestingly, Galton's technique was recognized only in 1911, when the "Mona Lisa" stolen from the museum was found with the help of fingerprints. Since that time, dermatoglyphics (its section of fingerprinting) has been a recognized discipline that helps to find the offender.
Dermatoglyphics today is also a recognized method of medical diagnostics. The fact is that the patterns on the fingers are formed even in the womb, at 3 - 5 months of pregnancy, along with the tissues of the nervous system. Skin patterns are individual and do not change throughout life, so dermatoglyphic analysis is a very convenient method. By the pattern on the fingers, even before the chromosomal picture is obtained, the child can be diagnosed with Down syndrome, Shereshevsky-Turner and Klinefelter syndrome and other pathologies.
Finally, dermatoglyphic research is carried out in full in that area of human activity, where genetic predisposition means a lot - in professional sports. The dermatoglyphics of our Olympic team have been studied in the laboratory of sports anthropology of the All-Russian Institute of Physical Culture for 15 years.
Long-term analysis has already shown that the dermatoglyphic characteristics of athletes in different sports differ. In speed-strength sports, where it is required to perform the exercise as quickly as possible, simple patterns and the smallest ridge count (the number of combs within the pattern) are most often encountered.
Athletes whose sports are characterized by complex coordination have a more complex pattern.
Endurance and static stability sports occupy the middle position on these indicators.
In general, the more difficult a sport is in terms of coordination, the more complex pattern combinations are found among athletes.
Generally speaking, people with arcs on their fingers are more suitable for attackers than others, and for defenders with curls.
Ethnic dermatoglyphics
Ethnic dermatoglyphics is a separate branch of science on finger patterns. Anthropologists specializing in dermatoglyphics have collected a huge body of material on this discipline. It is interesting that the poorest dermatoglyphic picture is observed among Europeans, as the distance from Europe to the south becomes more complicated. This can explain the extraversion of Western civilization and the introversion of the East.
It is also noticed that such a pattern as curls on fingers can most often be found among peoples living in extreme situations: among the aborigines of the North - Aleuts, Chukchi, aborigines of Tierra del Fuego, Australia, and Tibet. It is easier for people with curled fingers to survive in harsh environmental conditions. Their culture is more contemplative.