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Reading Palms

December 12 2001 at 8:59 PM		Webel Fetzer 
SUNDAY DECEMBER 09 2001
The Times (UK)

Scientists say palm-reading is true guide to intelligence

INTELLECTUAL ability can be predicted by the way in which lines on people’s hands are aligned, according to new research, writes Roger Dobson.

Scientists have discovered that people with learning difficulties — those with an IQ below 70 — have distinctive patterns of lines on the hand.

The lines — which include crease marks on the palm, as well as ridges and unusual fingerprint patterns — may also give clues to intelligence generally. They could even provide an early indicator of higher than average IQ.

Scientists say the patterns reflect events that occur during pregnancy. If there was an infection that affected the development of a critical part of the brain, it would have also changed the patterns of lines on the hand, they say.

The discovery is the latest in a number of studies that increasingly show that lines on the fingers and palms can predict a range of conditions and diseases.

New research carried out at Manchester University Institute of Science and Technology (Umist) has found that two vertical lines on the palm can predict the likelihood of diabetes in later life. Other scientists have found clues to the development of heart disease, autism, anxiety, schizophrenia and even cot death.

In the latest research, scientists from Barcelona University say that the lines on the hand — dermatoglyphics — can be a marker for intellectual ability. They compared the hands of 140 children and found that those who were intellectually impaired had more arches and loops on the fingers, and more abnormal creases across the palm.

Children with abnormal creases were four times more likely to suffer from low IQs. The researchers also found that among the children with intellectual disability there was a higher incidence of unusual fingerprint shapes, with more loops offset to the right rather than being vertical. The Simian line across the palm, which few people have, may be the main indicator of a low IQ, they conclude.

What makes dermatoglyphics important as markers for disease and traits is the fact that they develop at specific times in the foetus. Fingerprints, for example, begin to form at around the 13th week and are completed around week 18 — the same time that critical growth in the brain is taking place.

Several factors that the foetus can be exposed to, including infection or a drop in nutrition, may affect the patterns of the lines as well as the development of other organs.

Researchers at Umist, led by Professor Bernard Richards, have found that lines on the hand can predict the probability of the development of diabetes. They concentrated on computer analyses of the line that sweeps down around the thumb to the wrist on the palms of 50 young children.

In people with diabetes, the line joined a second line at a wider angle and at a point 1cm higher in the palm.

In other studies, a significant number of Sydney lines across the palm have been found in cot death victims.

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Note: Finger and thumb shapes and fingernail patterns can also be used by Doctors to predict health problems. Earlobe shape can also be an indicator. (W.F.)

 

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