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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan complied readily, asking many questions of the officer
during the operation.
"Do fingerprints show racial characteristics?" he asked.
"Could you determine, for example, solely from fingerprints
whether the subject was Negro or Caucasian?"
"I think not," replied the officer.
"Could the finger prints of an ape be detected from those
of a man?"
"Probably, because the ape's would be far simpler than
those of the higher organism."
"But a cross between an ape and a man might show the
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