Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction / MAVALWALA, JAMSHED -- SECTION ONE: Methodology -- An Inkless Method of Recording Dermal Ridges / ROBERTSON-NEUFELD, LYNN / MURRAY, JEFFREY -- Critical Remarks on Some Methodological Procedures in the Field of Dermatoglyphics / WENINGER, MARGARETE -- A Methodology for Dermatoglyphics - Fingers and Palms / MAVALWALA, JAMSHED -- SECTION TWO: Nonhuman Primates -- A New Technique for Examining Primate Dermatoglyphics / OKAJIMA, M. -- Characteristics of Intercore Ridge Count in Rhesus Monkeys / EDWARDS, CHARLES R. -- SECTION THREE: Human Populations -- Sex Differences in Finger-Pattern Frequencies in Different Populations / WILDE, A. G. de / AMESZ-VOORHOEVE, W. ¿. M. -- Finger Ridge Counts in Samples from Tribal Populations of India with Application of a Three-Factor Theory / BÜCHI, E. C. -- A Quantitative Analysis of the Alignment of Palmar Main Line A in an Indian Population / DATTA, P. K. -- Dermatoglyphics in Two Yukpa Groups from the Sierra de Perijá: Chaparro and Parirí / UNGRÍA, A. G. de DÍAZ -- Dermatoglyphics Among the Toba Indians of Argentina / REICHMANN, AMELIA -- Dermatoglyphic Variation in Five Eskimo Groups from Northwestern Alaska / MEIER, ROBERT J. -- Recent Anthropological Data on the Ammassalimiut Eskimo of East Greenland: Comparative Studies / DUCROS, ALBERT / DUCROS, JACQUELINE -- Hungarian Dermatoglyphics and Their Relation to the Origin of the Hungarian People / GLADKOVA, T. D. / ¿Ó¿¿, ¿. ¿. -- Dermatoglyphic Differentiation of the Population of the U.S.S.R. / HEET, H. L. -- The Dermatoglyphics of the Peoples of New Guinea: A Review / PLATO, C. C. / GAJDUSEK, D. C. / MacLENNAN, R. -- Some Characteristics of Fingerprints and Palmprints in the Rembarranga Tribe in the Northern Territory, Australia / PROKOPEC, M. / sEDIVÝ, V. -- SECTION FOUR: Genetics -- A Genetic Model for the Inheritance of a Dermatoglyphic Trait: Absence of the Palmar c-Triradius / KLOEPFER, H. WARNER -- 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 / ARMSTRONG, RICHARD D. -- A Comparison of Dermatoglyphic and Genetic Similarity Indices in Rhesus Monkeys / EDWARDS, CHARLES R. -- SECTION FIVE: Medicine -- Dermatoglyphics and Creases in Their Relationship to Clinical Syndromes: A Diagnostic Criterion? / HIRSCH, W. -- Dermatoglyphics in Dyscephaly Saethre-Chotzen (Acrocephalosyndactyly Type III, Chotzen Syndrome) / SCHAUMANN, BLANKA / PANTKE, OLAF A. -- Dermatoglyphics in Cerebral Gigantism / SCHAUMANN, BLANKA / ALTER, MILTON -- Dermatoglyphics in Microcephaly and Hydrocephaly / ALTER, MILTON / SCHAUMANN, BLANKA -- Palmar Dermatoglyphics in Celiac Sprue / DAVID, T. J. / AJDUKIEWICZ, ¿. B. -- Dermatoglyphic Patterns in Endemic Cretinism / CIOVIRNACHE, MARTA / BALAN, M. -- Factors Influencing Digital Dermatoglyphics in Congenital Rubella / PURVIS-SMITH, S. G. / MENSER, MARGARET A. -- Dermatoglyphic Laterality, Sex-Chromosome Mosaicism, and Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy / WOHLLEB, JAMES C. / RAZAVI, LAWRENCE -- Main Line Index and Transversality in Trisomy 21 / KUMBNANI, ¿. K. -- Tibial-Arch Patterns on the Hallucal Area of Nonmongol Mentally Retarded / DAVIES, JOAN SCHINDELER / SMITH, GEORGE F. / WARREN, RICHARD -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects