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Research reveals reasons for left-handedness

By Murray Sherriffs

Reseachers have been looking at right-handed and left-handed people.

Ninety percent of humans are right-handed, but why?

A study out of the University of Oxford reveals that this predisposed characteristic is actually a byproduct of how our brains formed, when we began to walk upright.

Archeologists have traced evidence of right-hand dominance back to the Neolithic era, but some argue that it was true even before then.

The data demonstrates that handedness was rooted in specific brain regions around the time that bipedalism emerged.

Why are the remainder left-handed? Because we’re special.

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