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.'"

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Re:Evolution wants to be anthropomorphised?

[Dave the Enchanter]

I would suggest the enlightened amongst us read Lee Strobel's "The Case for the Creator". Bottom line evolution is a theory, with very little real and tangible evidence to support it.

• Many of the key early experiments had "issues" in the reporting (faked).

• The "cambrian explosion" cannot be explained by evolution

The book has many others; so whether you believe in God, Christ, or just the concept "of purposeful design", well, read the book, draw you r own conclusions.