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2 Responses to “Lefty information”

1. Cat says:

   November 16, 2010 at 7:26 pm

   There’s an interesting chapter ‘Of the left hand and the right hand’ in Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica (or ‘On common false opinions’, first published 1646):

   http://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/pseudodoxia.shtml

   The chapter is Book 4, chapter 5. (Chapters 2, 3 and 4 also concern handedness). Browne wants to determine whether there is any truth in a variety of beliefs about the left hand, his conclusion being suitably cautious. The chapter thus gives a lot of information about both the beliefs of the time and the “scientific” explanations for the prevalence of the right hand, for handedness, etc. His English is a bit difficult at first but it’s well worth the effort.

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2. Shelley A says:

   September 22, 2010 at 1:50 am

   Being a lefty I have always had trouble with scissors, pens, notebooks, desks, sewing machines, cameras, etc… Both my parents were right-handed as well as both sets of grandparents and all siblings. Why was I born left-handed? Or, did something happen to me to and I became a lefty? In a science class last year, we had to do a research project and genetics was a category we could research. I did a website for the research project which examined genetic, environmental, and pathological influences considered when attempting to determine the origins of left-handedness. The website has lots of information about left-handedness and it’s possible origins along with some fun facts about being a lefty. Here is the link –
   http://sites.google.com/site/leftyproject/page1

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