Scientists Found 71 Genetic Fingerprints of Human History. Not All of Them Make Sense.

Genes make us who we are—but are they shaped by chance, natural selection, or something else?
WUSA

From a fair to fingerprinting: Here's the history behind how we identify suspects

The first United States police force began the use of fingerprints in suspect identification in October 1904. But how fingerprints came into law enforcement took a world's fair and a case of mistaken ...
OnMilwaukee

How the age of fingerprints began

In today's Black History Month lesson, thanks to two unrelated yet identical inmates, fingerprint analysis is employed by every law enforcement agency, in every country, the world over. Every year for ...
Publishers Weekly

SUSPECT IDENTITIES: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification

Cole's comprehensive first book investigates the tangled intersections of scientific identification and law enforcement, entering similar territory as Colin Beavan's Fingerprints (see review above), ...
insider.si.edu

Truth machine the contentious history of DNA fingerprinting Michael Lynch, Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally, and Kathleen Jordan

nmahmai copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. A revolution in forensic science? -- Interlude A : DNA profiling techniques -- A techno-legal controversy -- Interlude B : Admissibility, ...