General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: METHODOLOGY -- An Inkless Method of Recording Dermal Ridges -- A Chalk-and-Tape Method for Lifting the Palmprints of Nonhuman Primates -- Critical Remarks on Some Methodological Procedures in the Field of Dermatoglyphics -- A Methodology for Dermatoglyphics - Fingers and Palms -- SECTION TWO: NONHUMAN PRIMATES -- A New Technique for Examining Primate Dermatoglyphics -- Characteristics of Intercore Ridge Count in Rhesus Monkeys -- SECTION THREE: HUMAN POPULATIONS -- Sex Differences in Finger-Pattern Frequencies in Different Populations -- Finger Ridge Counts in Samples from Tribal Populations of India with Application of a Three-Factor Theory -- A Quantitative Analysis of the Alignment of Palmar Main Line A in an Indian Population -- Dermatoglyphics in two Yukpa Groups from the Sierra de Perijá: Chaparro and Parirí -- Dermatoglyphics Among the Toba Indians of Argentina -- Dermatoglyphic Variation in Five Eskimo Groups from Northwestern Alaska -- Recent Anthropological Data on the Ammassalimiut Eskimo of East Greenland: Comparative Studies -- Hungarian Dermatoglyphics and Their Relation to the Origin of the Hungarian People -- Dermatoglyphic Differentiation of the Population of the U.S.S.R -- The Dermatoglyphics of the Peoples of New Guinea: A Review -- Some Characteristics of Fingerprints and Palmprints in the Rembarranga Tribe in the Northern Territory, Australia -- SECTION FOUR: GENETICS -- A Genetic Model for the Inheritance of a Dermatoglyphic Trait: Absence of the Palmar c triradius -- A Curve-Fitting Method for Estimating the Number of Loci in Total Finger Ridge Count and Its Implications for the Number of Loci Involved in Skin Color -- A Comparison of Dermatoglyphic and Genetic Similarity Indices in Rhesus Monkeys -- SECTION FIVE: MEDICINE.

Dermatoglyphics and Creases in Their Relationship to Clinical Syndromes: A Diagnostic Criterion? -- Dermatoglyphics in Dyscephaly Saethre-Chotzen (Acrocephalosyndactyly Type III, Chotzen Syndrome) -- Dermatoglyphics in Cerebral Gigantism -- Dermatoglyphics in Microcephaly and Hydrocephaly -- Palmar Dermatoglyphics in Celiac Sprue -- Dermatoglyphic Patterns in Endemic Cretinism -- Factors Influencing Digital Dermatoglyphics in Congenital Rubella -- Dermatoglyphic Laterality, Sex-Chromosome Mosaicism, and Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy -- Main Line Index and Transversality in Trisomy 21 -- Tibial-Arch Patterns on the Hallucal Area of Nonmongol Mentally Retarded -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.