The person who first developed a system of human Identification, known as anthropometry

• A. Edmond Locard
• B. Calvin Goddard
• C. Alphonse Bertillon
• D. Francis Galton

Answer: (C)

Anthropometry is the measurement of the human body used for identification. The person who first developed a system of identification based on this approach was Alphonse Bertillon. He created Bertillonage in the late 1800s, combining a standardized set of body measurements with photographs and distinguishing marks to form a unique identification record for each person. This was the first widely used method to identify individuals in criminal investigations. Over time, it gave way to fingerprinting, a field advanced and popularized by Francis Galton. The other figures contributed to different areas of forensic science—Locard with the exchange principle and Goddard with firearms examination—rather than to the origin of anthropometric identification.