It seems that Europeans have adopted fingerprints much later

It seems that Europeans have adopted fingerprints much later. Compared to applications, Europeans seem to be more focused on the nature of fingerprints themselves. Historical documents prove that as early as the Roman period, someone had observed the fingerprints left on the scene of the murder and tried to use it to handle the case. However, due to the technological conditions at the time, this inquiry did not produce any results. In the 17th century, more and more people were searching for the mystery of fingerprints. For example, the British morphologist Nehemiah Crew described the various shapes of fingerprints very accurately in the Philosophy Bulletin in 1684. By the beginning of the 19th century, scholars represented by Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Pulkinje had begun to try to classify fingerprints. By the middle of the 19th century, people had begun to guess that fingerprints, biological information, were unique and consistent for humans, so this property could be used to assist in identification. One of the representative figures is the British William James Hershel (WilliamJamesHershel). He was curious about the nature of fingerprints since he was a child, and he did not hesitate to burn his fingers with chemical reagents to verify the fact that the fingerprints were the same shape before and after rebirth. Later, when he worked as a civil servant in the Indian colony, he collected a lot of fingerprint information and discovered the fact that different people’s fingerprints are different. He wrote this discovery into a paper and published it in the 1880 journal Nature. . Almost at the same time, Henry Faulds, an Englishman living in Japan, discovered the same facts through observations of large numbers of people and monkeys, and published the results in the journal Nature. In 1892, Francis Galton, the famous cousin of Darwin, used statistical and mathematical methods to prove that the probability that two people’s fingerprints are exactly the same is only one in 64 billion. It is almost impossible for different people to be the same.