Williams " et al . " ( 2000 ) found that finger length ratio, a characteristic controlled by prenatal hormones, is different in lesbians than in straight women.
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For example, S . Marc Breedlove, a University of California at Berkeley psychologist, reported last year that differences in finger lengths showed a prenatal basis for sexual orientation.
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Nor can finger lengths be used as a reliable guide to very much of anything, although it's long been known that men tend to have longer fingers than women.
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The first modern biometric device, which debuted more than 20 years ago at the Shearson Hamill investment bank on Wall Street, was a hand-geometry reader that measured finger length.
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Next, he takes the finger length and multiplies that by " 2 to get the length of the palm from the base of the finger to the ulna.
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Some studies have claimed to show a correlation, for example, between such things as finger length or left-handedness and homosexuality, but all have been disputed and none proves genetic cause and effect.
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Noting that men and women had different finger length patterns, Wilson introduced the 2D / 4D digit ratio as a marker of exposure to prenatal testosterone, research on which has burgeoned in recent decades.
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Noting that a player has a choice of many fingering combinations, he said the selection must be geared to our own personal hand structure, stretch, finger length, flexibility, etc ., and the instrument, too, must be taken into account .
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The authors indicated two unique derived traits, or autapomorphies : the second phalanx of the wing-finger is long, with 85 % of the length of the first phalanx; the fourth phalanx is extremely reduced measuring but 1.1 % of wing-finger length.
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Also tie round about the middle of every potte a packthreed, and then hang upon the same packthreed round about the potte so many Gunmatches of a finger length as you wil, & when you wil throe any of these pottes among enemies, light the same gun-matches that they may so soone as the potte is broken with his fall uppon the ground, fire the mixture of the potte.
