(1) The material consists of 189 pairs of twins and 520 non-twin individuals. The number of ridges intervening between the four deltas at the bases of fingers I-IV have been counted and taken as the value of the individual.
(2) The coefficients of correlation between the right and left hands of the same individual are essentially the same for both monozygotic and dizygotic twins (nearly 0.9); the correlation between total values of both hands of A and B is nearly 0.9 for monozygotic twins, and only 0.5-0.6 for dizygotic twins.
(3) The polygon of the number of ridges constructed on a sufficiently larger number of individuals is approximately a normal polygon. This fact shows that the number of ridges on palms is determined by multiple factors which shows neither complete dominance nor recessiveness.
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