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Why is someone right-handed and someone left-handed? Our complicated genetics can be responsible for that.

May 2, 2024
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Right-handers make up to 90% of the entire population, while only about 10% of people are left-hand dominant. Scientists have used ultrasound to determine that the predisposition towards right-handedness or left-handedness can be predicted as early as in the womb. Clyde Francks from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands explains, ‘There is […]