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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days ago

Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk

www.ox.ac.uk

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Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk

www.ox.ac.uk

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days ago
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Humans are the only primates with a population-wide hand preference. A new Oxford-led study, 'Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness', published in PLOS Biology, traces it back to bipedalism and brain expansion.
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  • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Ah, I hoped it would cover a different angle. As a left-footed, right handed person, I was excited about how “learning to walk” affects handedness, but sounds like this research is more about how it evolved.

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      3 days ago

      Til! I thought it was either/or…

    • racoon@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      My son is left handed since he was in the womb

      • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        How did you identify it?

        • racoon@lemmy.ml
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          2 days ago

          he was sucking his left thumb in the scans and he would have spams while sleeping, just like me

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    4 days ago

    Science!

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