Cool. Phrenology has morphed into Phalangology

Bok_Tukalo

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Mon Mar-28-05 05:13 PM
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Cool. Phrenology has morphed into Phalangology

Are you a criminal?

Let me see those fingers.

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Historic NY

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Mon Mar-28-05 05:17 PM
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1. Sure beats feeling for bumps.................

:freak:

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MisterP

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Mon Mar-28-05 05:26 PM
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2. or adjusting them: "It's belt-sander time!"

actually, it was physiognomy that was used to hang criminals in the late 19th cent.: Stephen Jay Gould's books are good on this.

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DeposeTheBoyKing

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Mon Mar-28-05 05:34 PM
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3. What about earprints?

A guy in my Scientific Evidence class last year did his paper on those. Apparently they're quite specific, too.

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