"The long-known connection between brain asymmetry, handedness and language in living populations serves as a proxy for estimating brain lateralization in the fossil record and the likelihood of language capacity in fossils," the researchers, led by Virginie Volpato of the Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, write.
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I’m not prejudiced against left-handed people, but I honestly don’t understand why we don’t actively teach kids to write with their right hand. Any time I see someone writing with their left hand it looks so ridiculous.
Maybe lefties are preparing for our eventual Arab or Chinese overlords. Writing with your left hand in a Western country makes as much sense as walking backwards, but is a distinct advantage if you’re writing in Arabic or Chinese.
That's funny; I consider most right-handed people to be Neanderthals. Including people who make remarks about, "why don't we teach (force) all children to write right-handed?"
And 46% were Republican, 36% Democratic, and 18% Independent
I had a step-monster that did exactly that to one of my step brothers. I still recall her domineering him and forcing him to stop using his left hand naturally as a baby. Poor kid is now a liberal lawyer, go figure.
I don’t know to whom of you I should respond first, so I will just write my thoughts on t he comments I see on this thread and address to each of you…if the shoe fits, wear it.
First of all, these ‘scientists’ are presumptuous to assume that they can know whether these ‘Neandrathrals’ were either right handed or left handed. But that is to be expected of pseudo scientists.
As a true scientist, I can say unabashedly that only the few, most intelligent of the homo sapiens are left handed. And as libertarian27 posted, ‘everyone is born right handed; only the greatest overcome it…
And again, libertarian27 posted, ‘Only LEFT-HANDED people are in their RIGHT minds’.
I am left handed. I see what I write as I right it, just as a LEFT minded person does when they write with their wrong hand. Teachers who don’t know better are responsible for the kind of LEFT HANDED writing referred to in one of the posts. And I would wager I write more legibly that most of you out there who are so proud of being wrong handed.
When I shoot a pistol, I can handle and shoot it accurately and well with either hand dominant. How many of you wrong handed people out there can say that?
When I play golf, I stand on the right side of the ball.
Teachers who tried to make wrong handers out of left handers were totally incorrect and damaged many of those in doing so.
And there is nothing more ridiculous than a prejudiced wrong hander, such as you who thinks ‘Any time I see someone writing with their left hand it looks so ridiculous.’
A few years ago, the three ‘most intelligent’ men in this country were running for President…and all three were LEFT handed. Now, some of you may not agree regarding their intelligence, but they were all very successful men in other ventures, either in politics or in business or both, and they were all candidates for the highest office in this land…an office to which most of you reading this will never aspire.
The wrong handed people of this world can only tolerate a few highly intelligent members of our species, which is why there are only a few of us who are left handed.