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Forensic science in the 1900s
Francis Galton was one of the first scienest to discover the finger print system that we still use today. His discovery helped us to solve crimes and capture dangerious criminals. Francis Galton was a relevative of charles darwin and studied in different fields like from exploration to eugenics to weather to fingerprints. Galton originally wanted to become a doctor and studied medcine Galton then developed his own theories on inherited traits. He studied identical twins, and worked on the first intelligence test in his exploration. Galton spent much of his life studying heredity and eugenics, and he later thought that a person's fingerprints might be a part of human genetic. He thought that these prints might provide information on differences between people, from race from characteristics to intelligence. Galton established a fingerprint classification system that is still in use today.


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