By the end of the 19th century, police in various parts of the world were using fingerprints, but a unifying classification was needed…

While Galton was publishing in England, fingerprinting also took hold across the Atlantic. In 1891, Juan Vucetich, a statistician working for the police…

In the late 19th century, British scientist Sir Francis Galton took Faulds’ and Herschel’s observations to the next level by applying statistical analysis….

By the 17th century, European scientists began examining the structure of human skin. In 1687, Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi studied the tiny ridges…

In the mid-19th century, Sir William James Herschel, a British officer in colonial India, made the first practical use of fingerprints in modern…

Centuries before scientific study, ancient civilizations used fingerprints for practical purposes. In Babylon and ancient China, people pressed fingertip impressions into clay tablets…