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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

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

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☆ 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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    My son is left handed since he was in the womb

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      How did you identify it?

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

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