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DISCUSSION -2

When DNA evolved as a science, the term "DNA fingerprinting" was adopted to lend credibility to that science's newcomer status, which is in its infancy compared with the empirical validation of fingerprint identification worldwide. DNA analysis as commonly practiced in forensic science laboratories cannot differentiate between identical twins, but fingerprints have always been able to differentiate identical twins.  Therefore, why is so much emphasis placed on DNA evidence if it cannot do what fingerprint analysis, which has been around for hundreds of years, can already accomplish? If fingerprint identification is accurate enough to accomplish what DNA cannot; why must every identification made using fingerprints, even those of an AFIS or IAFIS computer be double checked by two examiners?  

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