Chiromancy

Chiromancy or cheiromancy, (Greek cheir, ?hand?; manteia, ?divination?), is the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palmistry, palm-reading, or hand analysis.

Palmistry & Science

There has been little widely accepted research verifying palmistry's accuracy as a system of analysis. Much has been undertaken by readers themselves, and seems anecdotally interesting, though questionable when put to rigorous scientific standards. (See 10 Years of Hand Analysis Research from Martijn van Mensvoort.)

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The research that has been undertaken in more mainstream scientific veins generally revolves around medical disorders, such as relating the simian line to Down's Syndrome.

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It is interesting to note that no two people have identical palms. Like fingerprints, everyone has a unique configuration of hand characteristics. Even individual lines greatly vary from person to person.

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