Creativity and Fingerprints?

I have been reading lately some fascinating articles on creativity from the 1800s. While I needed a bit of time to adjust to the style of writing, and not get offended with every other word (note: I've never found myself urging political correctness so much) I have discovered some very interesting things about creativity. I came across Galton (1882), a name I did not spot in my previous readings. Amongst other things, he talked about creativity in the context of genius and 'believed that genius was inherited from families'(Darlington, 1962). His research was very much focused on the creative individual - and not just the mind of the creative but the individual as a whole. He was one of the first researchers who discovered that fingerprints were unique and persuaded Scotland Yard to use his method of classifying them. He further developed his methods and looked into psychometrics that then lead to the IQ test. Who knew that fingerprints and creativity would ever have something in common? Granted, Galton is the link, but isn't it interesting to see how research leads to these unique discoveries and connections...Creativity - Genius - Unique fingerprints - Classifying Methods -Psychometric concepts - IQ tests - Creativity....full research circle. The article can be found here.

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