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Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference
An anonymous reader writes "'Language skills are associated with the left side of the brain, and many scientists have said early humans developed a preference for their right hands when they acquired speech,' but Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center has a new study that links hand preference to the motor skills area of the brain rather than the language part of the brain. 'That means lefties have probably been around much longer than believed -- at least 5 million years, when scientists say humans and apes branched on the primate family tree. And evolution has purposely kept them.'"
Let the masturbation jokes begin!!!
HE shouldn't have been using the devil's hand in the first place
So, essentially what they've proven is that the motor skills part of the brain may effect the development of our motor skills?
Man, I can't wait until I get my Ph.D.! This research scientist stuff is going to be a piece of cake!
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
*extends left hand*
Since when has evolution* purposely chosen to do anything
*In case there are any Americans reading, so as not to offend I'll include the standard disclaimer that evolution is just a theory and it's equally likely we were created out of mud 6000 years ago and fossils are the result of God's sense of humour.
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Yeah, well it's BUSH'S fault that he can't READ.
stuff
Seriously though - I am left handed, but I don't have autism, dyslexia or schizophrenia
Denial is the first sign...
Troy: Gettin hungry Jimmy?
Jimmy: Uhh, Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says its wrong to eat meat. Is he crazy?
Troy: Nooo, just ignorant. You see your crazy friend never heard of "The Food Chain". [Flash to a picture of "Food Chain", with all animals and arrows pointing to a silhouette of a human.] Just ask this scientician.
Scientician: [Looking up from a microscope.] Uhhh...
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F03.html
...must be difficult to find lefthanded bananas
D.
To suggest that left handedness is genetic is a socialist lie. It is condemned in the Bible, like being crippled and eating shellfish. Everyone knows that left handedness is a choice, a sinful lifestyle promoted by Satanic liberals. Even the scientific term, sinister, reveals it's Luciferian origin. Concerned parents must act now to stop children being taught to be left handed in schools, and to stop the media being overrun by positive depictions of left handedness. Would you want your child to be fondled by a left handed pedophile coming home from a sickening Sinster Pride march?
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Thank you, science monkey!
I'm ambidextrous. I'm better than both of you.
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I'm ambidextrous, and I'm in MENSA. Admittedly I was forced to learn to use my left hand while taking several years to recover from an injury to my right hand, so it's not 100% natural. Does that count?
;)
It's fun to be writing something in front of someone who doesn't know, and switch hands and continue perfectly. The look on their faces is priceless
I think it's more likely that only those of us with our brains in backwards could ever see fit to sit through an entire course of Prolog.
There is a advantage of being left-handed - it is the element of surprise when you meet your foe
:)
Most FPS games now have the option to make your character left or right handed when it's using an ae or something, so it's no more a surprise
Trolling using another account since 2005.
"One strange thing I've noticed when teaching and attending Emergency Medical Services (read 'ambulance service') classes is that there are a higher number of lefties then the general population."
It's a lot harder to run with left-handed scissors than the general populace realizes.
"Derp de derp."
I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous!
I'd give my right-arm to be ambidextrous
"You are wonderful."
"Thank you; I've worked hard to become so. "
"I admit it, you are better than I am."
"Then why are you smiling? "
"Because I know something you don't know."
"And what is that? "
"I... am not left-handed!"
[...]
"You are amazing."
"I ought to be, after 20 years."
"Oh, there's something I ought to tell you."
"Tell me."
"I'm not left-handed either!"
Most FPS games now have the option to make your character left or right handed when it's using an ae or something, so it's no more a surprise :)
In Unreal 2004, you can choose one of three positions -- left, right, or middle.
However, the game manual does not explain what body part you use to hold the weapon if you choose the "middle" position.
It also makes it easier to fire your handgun at oncoming traffic (not in the UK, Singapore, Australia or Ireland, natch).
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
somebody mod this guy -1 Informative...