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Early man (Babylonians) used fingerprints as signatures in a way.
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Humans first start dissecting animals to communicate with higher forces.
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During this time period, the Chinese were using fingerprints as signatures on documents.
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The first lie detector test was created in 700.
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Roman attorney, Quintilian finds out that a bloody handprint was used to frame a blind man for the murder of his mother.
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The very first forensic are done at Bologna University.
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The first murder weapons were discovered in a small village. A murderer killed a person using a sickle and everyone who owned a sickle had to lay them out in the sun until flies gathered around one of them.
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In England, the descriptions of a Coroners job are published.
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The murder of a nobleman is suspected and the first medicolegal autopsy is performed by Bartolomeo Da Varignana.
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Pope Clement VI orders autopsies on Black Death victims to try and find a cure for the plague.
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The teeth of the Duke of Burgundy are identified as his remains.
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Henry Goddard of Scotland Yard uses bullets to compare and find the murderer based on the shaping of the bullet and it's mold.
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This was the first set of fingerprints that would criminalize someone.
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The first portable polygraph is created by John Augustus Larson.
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Sir Alec Jeffreys develops the fingerprint DNA technique.