is the handwriting of a person in any way similar to that of his/her parents? i mean is there genes involved ?
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i tried to find resources online, but didnt find any ^_^.\n\nso i guess i will try to answer it myself for a change ;). \ni think handwriting depends on both genes and the surroundings in which a child is brought up.\nHandwriting is determined by -\n1. length of the fingers\n2. rigidity of the fingerbones\n3. flexibility of the wrist\n\nof these length of the fingers is definitely hereditary to some extent. but it can also be increased by exercises and taking calcium supplements.\nrigidity of fingers is more dependent on how much we exercised our fingers when we were in our formative years. if you remember in kindergarten we used to do claymodelling. that was an exercise to strengthen the bones for a smooth handwriting.\nflexibility of the wrist is also dependent on external factors as it is bones related.\n\nso i guess handwritings are sort of involved with genes but there are more external factors involved as well.
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Well there are so many technicalities revolving around this question. While biologically speaking you could call the children sibblings is erelevant to the question. Manly because they will have there own genetic codes.  That is where this becomes quite complicated because genetics deals with more than just genes it deals with traits, DNA, Chromosomes, Blood Types, etc...  As far as them being related, coming from not only the same father, but an identical twin they are going to have very similar genes.  In fact when it comes to there family traits it will be identical.  However no individual, no matter if they are identical will ever have the exact same genetics (in the broad since) as another because that would go against the natural law of diversity.  So sumary exact same family traits, but overall two different people (genetics).
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hey man I was wondering just an educated guess on my part but were your parents "SIBLINGS"??
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I bet it took a while to type that one...just kidding...Just for laughs...try to write, paint, or color using your feet. and give it to your parents...it will remind them of how you use to color for them when you were young.
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My father is a geneologist. He went to scandinavia for info my mom's family. The written record splits when you go far enough back. On one side it concludes with a king Olaf I believe. On the other side the king was kidnapped by Odin for seeking to be a God. Also on this side are references to the king fathering the twins Frey/Freya.
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From what I remember reading, ink and paper were high commodities, not readily available to the common folk, the "Lords of the Manors" back then would actually hire a "scribe" to write letters and such to be posted, and were written very nicely in what has become known as "Old English" lettering. Some letters that were more "personal" were in cursive, just like you would have written a love letter today.
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This is really all about genetics. Each person has differing genes and inherit family traits!
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I think you may be interested in reading an  article by a biopsychologist named Lawrence Harper. The article proposes a theory that suggests that experiences can be inherited through genetic means. The theory does not specifically address the notion of the inheritance of particular memories, but it may prove a useful avenue for pursuing your question.\n\nHere is the abstract from the article:\n\nCurrently, behavioral development is thought to result from the interplay among genetic inheritance, congenital characteristics, cultural contexts, and parental practices as they directly impact the individual. Evolutionary ecology points to another contributor,epigenetic inheritance, the transmission to offspring of parental phenotypic responses to environmental challenges—even when the young do not experience the challenges themselves. Genetic inheritance is not altered, gene expression is. Organismic pathways for such transmission\nexist. Maternal stress during the latter half of a daughter’s gestation may affect not only the daughter’s but also grand-offspring’s physical growth. The author argues that temperamental variation may be influenced in the same way. Implications for theory and research design are presented along with testable predictions.
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I'm not sure how old you are, but you could always buy a childrens guide to handwriting (the ones where you can write over the dotted letters).  You might think that this sounds silly, but you will strengthen the muscles in your hand that you use to write with and will also improve your handwriting by picking up tips on modern handwriting.
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So handedness isn't a simple dominant-recessive trait.  It's actually linked to lateralisation - a process during development where the two halves of the brain each become specialised for particular tasks.  So all people who are right-handed are typically lateralised in the same way, for example they have an area of cortex on their left hemisphere dedicated to language (Broca's area) with parts of the right hemisphere dedicated to processing facial expressions (these are just two examples, there are many other left-right specialisations).  But left-handers and a small minority of right handers have different speciaisations.  So Broca's area may be found on the right hemisphere in these people.  Other features of the typical left-right patten may or may not be swapped producing several different patterns of lateralisation within the human population, one dominant pattern, seen in about 90% of people and several other patterns seen in just a few percent of people.\nWhich pattern of lateralisation an individual is, (including whether they are left-handed or right-handed) is determined by their genes.  Incidentally, a very small minority of people are naturally ambidextrous and don't actually have a genetically-determined hand preference.  However, experience and development also play a role.  So a genetically left-handed person who is made to use their right hand will, by virtue of practise become better at using their right-hand.  Similarly, people can teach themselves to be "ambidextrous" by practising with their non-preferred hand, but this isn't the same as natural ambidextrousness.\nSo to (finally!) answer your question about why you aren't left-handed, lateralisation patterns (which determine handedness) are influenced by many different genes and different combinations of these genes will produce different patterns, so while left-handedness will "run in the family" it can't be predicted as easily or reliably as hair colour, or eye colour or any other single gene trait.
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Only identical twins have similar fingerprints.\n\nOtherwise all of us have different fingerprints.
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I think that it's crap - because how does a person's handwriting reflect on who they are? Everyone's taught how to write in prep.
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The birth certificate should at the very least have the mother's name on it, if not the father's, and their birthdates as well, so if those matched with yours, it would be fairly reasonable, but DNA proof would be ideal.
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Ahhh...nature versus nurture!  Even the experts cannot say with certainty whether nature and your genetic makeup or your nurturing is what makes up the person. There have been studies done with twins who were raised apart, and found that the twins had MANY things that they did just alike, from little things such as which hand they used to open a letter to bigger things such as they body-type and coloring of the people they fell in love with!  There have also been many studies done as to how poverty, violence, drug/alcohol abuse, sexual/physical abuse and parental abandonment affects children, especially in the birth to age 4 range, and how this shows up in their later life as violence in men and self-abuse in women. So having said all this, I personally feel that it is a combination of both, and sometimes it is neither. There are always the stories of the family who did everything right and still wound up with a drug addicted child or a murderer or rapist on their hands. But if you take a 'normal' family and have them raise a child (by normal I mean average, honest, working, functioning people)you will by and large see differences in that child as compared to a child raised by a disfunctional, abusive, out of control, self-serving family.   Did this answer your question at all?
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My mom has been tracing our genealogy for the last several years,  She has gotten in touch with actual people and they have shown her letters and such.  Some of the stuff she has found on the Internet and tracked them down.  Unfortunately the stuff scanned onto websites and seeing the actual document turned up different because their scanner was not on fine.  \n\nI was reading your query and wonder if the document you have with Tecombe on it could have been handwritten and faded. The reason I asked is because I left the computer to get a drink and when I came back, Tecombe looked a lot like Toronto in the distance.  My great-grandmother has the old Netherland style of writing and you have to read two or three times to get what she is saying because they used the older style of penmanship.\n\nI am suspecting you have already searched this site http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020108_e.html  but I'm throwing it in just in case.  Here is the main site, too  http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-500-e.html\n\nHope this helps, but it sounds like you have been pretty through.
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A very good question from your nephew\nNature provides us with the natural form of clones:\nidentical twins share the same genetic makeup and even\ndeveloped in the same uterus. Nevertheless, their\nfingerprints are not identical, though similar. The\nformation of fingerprints is partly the result of a\nstochastic process.\nThe ultimate shape of fingerprints are believed to be influenced by environmental factors during pregnancy, like nutrition, blood pressure, position in the womb and the growth rate of the fingers at the end of the first trimester. \n\n\nSo identical twins and clones are similar and they have similar but not identical finger prints.
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Definitely I think so. Our genes are inherited from them hence we will tend to display their characteristics in our behaviour. I am not sure whether this internet resource would be of any help to you:\nhttp://www.brocku.ca/psychology/courses/outlines2003/parental_characteristics_and_parenting.3P23.pdf#search='can%20parental%20characteristics%20affect%20the%20behaviour%20of%20their%20children?'\n\nIt is in PDF format