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I HAVE made a number of determinations of the relative lengths of the “index” and “ring” fingers of both hands, the results of which, I think, very decidedly show that there is a great dissimilarity between the two hands. The hands of twenty-two persons were examined; in ten there was similarity between the hands as regards the relative lengths of the two fingers in question; in twelve there was dissimilarity. In the case of eight out of the ten the “ring” was longer than the “index;” in one case the “index” was the longer, and in the remaining instance the two fingers were of equal length. Of the twelve cases which exhibited dissimilarity, six had the “ring” longer than the “index” in the left hand, and five in the right hand; four had the “index” longer than the “ring” in the left hand, and in three the same relation existed in the right hand.
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MUIR, M. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 13, 87 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/013087b0
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