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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why 90% of Humans Are Right-Handed
As for why left-handedness exists at all, well, that’s still a mystery.
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Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I can extend my empathy beyond myself just enough to imagine someone else’s perspective, fully knowing I’ll never completely understand the texture of their experience. But as a right-handed person, I will never, ever be able to do that for left-handed people. There’s just something in my brain preventing me from understanding how someone can navigate the world primarily using the hand I mostly rely on to accidentally test the sharpness of kitchen knives.
So naturally, it always made sense to me that around 90 percent of humans are right-handed. What never made sense was why. According to........