1. Finger ridge-count correlations: Race, sex and hand differences
- Author
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J. Ducros, S. Vrydagh, and A. Leguebe
- Subjects
body regions ,Correlation ,Race (biology) ,education.field_of_study ,Anthropology ,Individual data ,Population ,Racial differences ,Anatomy ,Ridge count ,Biology ,education ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
Race, sex and hand differences were tested using z -transformation of the means of correlation coefficients between ridge-counts of (a) fingers of right hand among themselves; (b) fingers of left hand among themselves; (c) non-homologous fingers of right and left hands; (d) homologous fingers, for two samples: o (1) individual data for 26 male and 12 female populations; (2) population means for 195 male and 165 female populations. Differences were observed between homologous and non-homologous fingers and between fingers of right and left hands. No significant sexual or racial differences appear from this analysis.
- Published
- 1981