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by actually_a_dog 1645 days ago
Did anybody pick up on how the fingerprint doesn't come back? I wonder why that is.
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I sliced off a fingertip once and it grew back, fingerprint and all. It's a fingerprint, though, I'm not sure it's the fingerprint.
Commented separately, but I had a sliced off thumb print come back. Good 1/8" off the face of my thumb.
I have heard that fingerprints are not genetic, but instead form in utero from the random motions of amniotic fluid.