Signatures: From Handwritten to Genetic Throughout history, contributing factors to a person’s identity have changed dramatically. In an attempt to demonstrate this change, both Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Anne Joseph and Alison Winter’s “Making the Match: Human Traces, Forensic Experts and the Public Imagination” can be used. Throughout the eighteen eighties: the setting of Jekyll and Hyde, the primary method of identifying people …showed first 75 words of 638 total…

…showed last 75 words of 638 total…Making out a person’s identity has progressed considerably in the past one-hundred years and therefore so has the common idea of what is characterized as identity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Joseph, Anne and Alison Winter. “Making the Match: Human Traces, Forensic Experts and the Public Imagination.” Cultural Baggage Ed. Francis Spafford and Jenny Uglow. London : Faber and Faber, 1996. 193-214. Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 1991.