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Hand Preference in Humans, Animals Explained

Posted February 02, 2011 10:45 AM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

When a Southpaw shakes hands, his left eye and the right portion of his brain are working hard to process the other individual, suggests a new study. The research helps to explain why hand and limb preferences exist across numerous species. The predisposition, as it turns out, are tied to ocular dominance, or the tendency to prefer visual input from one eye over the other, according to the study, published in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters.

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Re: Hand Preference in Humans, Animals Explained

02/03/2011 8:50 AM

Most of the engineers where I work are left handed. Actually, if the country is 10% left, 30% ambi, and 60% right; Our office is probably 25% left, 50% ambi (bats left, kicks right), and 25% right.

It's funny to go eat with a group of people and the righties look odd.

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