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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.'"
Evolution has no purpose. It just is.
> Let the masturbation jokes begin!!!
OK, here's a start.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Funny how we keep on anthropomorphising what most of you believe is an impersonal process.
Oops, I seem to have made a mistake in using the term "Creationism" - I only meant that I believe that there is a higher power who had a hand in causing everything that is to be. I didn't mean to imply that I think the Bible is literally accurate, word-for-word - I don't actually.
I hope that casts a slightly different light on my comment - I wasn't saying the universe was created in 6 days, just that I hold to the belief that it was caused to come into being (with no reference to the method).
Daar is nie 'n lepel nie
Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo (The painters)
What about Donatello, though? Oh, the painters! And here I was thinking that you were refering to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as famous left handed people. I'm sure glad we cleared that up.