Assignment:
Answer the following questions
1. What evidence exists that fingerprints were understood to be unique to the individual in ancient times?
2. What are Galton details?
3. Explain why there was a reluctance to accept fingerprints as an absolute method of identification in the early years.
4. An ideal identification system serves to do what?
5. Name the various methods of identification prior to Bertillon.
6. The study of fingerprints is similar to any other science. What does that statement mean?
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