0 the fact of using your left hand to write and do most things:
Left-handedness is largely hereditary.
He struggled to play the guitar because of his left-handedness.
Left-handedness, which is determined by genetic makeup, occurs in about 8-9 per cent of the population.
Left-handedness - slightly more common in men than women - is thought to be determined by our genes, with some environmental influences.
Left-handedness must have some advantages attached to it or it wouldn't survive in the evolutionary sense.
New research on chimpanzees indicates left-handedness has more to do with motor skills than with the language part of the brain as had been thought.
However, we feel that the treatment of left-handedness, with its implications for his theory, has yet to be fully developed.
But the specialization of one forelimb leading to right- or left-handedness is better viewed as the result of natural selection.
Thus, mixed- and left-handedness have to be explained as well as right-handedness.
So, for example, left-handedness has different connotations in different societies, just as ageing bodies have different connotations in different institutional contexts.
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