Posted on 03/01/2006 10:37:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
"The predominant right-handedness of humans has been noted since at least the time of the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle," write Amanda Blackburn (University of Manitoba) and Christopher Kn--sel (University of Bradford). "Modern research has shown that hand preference occurs across human cultures and, through observations of ancient art, in ancient peoples."
The researchers compared two test groups -- a modern sample of Canadians and a sample of medieval English villagers -- to determine the effect repeated movement had on human skeletons separated by over a thousand years. They found that the majority of active individuals display a high degree of asymmetry.
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And to think people made fun of me because I have a "_" in my name.
Yeah, there were four instances of a weird string of characters (the same weird string all four times), and two of them were where the dashes should be. So I wound up with that in CK's name. And being lazy, I didn't bother to go find out what it really is. :') Turns out, his name is Christopher Knüsel. :') Thanks to Scirus.org and Terra Daily for that info.
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:') Hey, I just noticed the last s got dropped from the name of this topic. Huh.
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