how do fingertips work? What makes them so unique and why they generate on the fingers and not other parts of the body?

Question

how do fingertips work? What makes them so unique and why they generate on the fingers and not other parts of the body?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Every part of your body is unique. Fingerprints are just exceptionally easy to tell apart and, more importantly, to *collect* since everything gets touched by fingers.