Why is the majority of people right-handed. Does it depend on culture?

Subject: Why is the majority of people right-handed. Does it depend on culture?

Date: Sat May 2 09:14:16 1998
Posted by Saskia
Grade level: grad (science)
School: Delft University of Technology
City: Delft State/Province: No state entered.
Country: The Netherlands
Area of science: Evolution
ID: 894118456.Ev

Message:


I wonder whether right-handedness is hereditary. Is the mayority of 
mankind right-handed, or does it depend on race or culture? 
Moreover, I wonder why right-handed people would develop a 
hand-writing that goes from right to left (hebrew, arabic). 

Saskia

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