Strangely, fingerprints are like humans

The fact that the fingerprints of human-like koalas are so difficult to distinguish between SEM scanning electron microscopes.

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Scientists believe that the characteristics of koalas have developed primarily during their recent evolution, because their close relatives, such as kangaroos or kangaroo, have no fingerprints.

For decades, anatomists have fiercely debated the purpose of fingerprints. According to the group of surgeons at the University of Adelaide (Australia), fingerprints are formed by the way we handle them. And so are koalas.

Above: Fingerprints of mature pandas (left) and people
mature (right) Bottom: Image via scanner of
Panda fingerprint (left) and human fingerprint (right)

'Pocket-feeding bears by clinging their hands to climb up and down the small branches of the eucalyptus tree, reaching out to the leaves and putting them in their mouths.

'So the best explanation for the origin of fingerprints is the mechanical adaptation to grasp things. This activity has produced multidimensional mechanical effects on the skin, making the structures on the skin formed in an orderly fashion, "said a University of Adelaide researcher.