Left Handers Day & Lefties: how can we identify handedness (or hand preference)?
Today is (apparently) International Left Handers Day....
There are few lefties among the Archaeology staff... Prof Jon Adams (our UG admissions tutor) for one - he is usually recognizable when diving as the only left handed underwater archaeologist (just see the films of the excavation and lifting of the Mary Rose). More famously (?) Leonardo da Vinci was a leftie. So why is this?
Population-level right-handedness is a defining characteristic of being human.
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