Lefties

[hyjyljyj]

My apologies, of course it was Leonardo and not Galileo who is credited with first inventing or conceptualizing the named items. Thank you for the correction. Galileo, Leonardo, Michaelangelo. If your name ends in O, you must be left-handed. >:^D

[kaylasdad99]

*Originally posted by hyjyljyj *
Marcel Marceau–even though nearly 80–still positively OWNS an entire physical art form based firmly on being the exact opposite of clumsy. If you can even name one other mime from now until you die (I can’t either), consider yourself in the extreme minority.

I can name two. Robert Shields and Lorene Yarnell. They even have their own web page.

So I guess I’m in the extreme minority. But then, I’m a leftie, too (and not just politically). I have no idea whether Shields and Yarnell are.

[cuban_ninja]

@Dogface

More data:

Left-handers are not more prone to immune deficiency:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2354644&dopt=Abstract

The prevalence of an inverted writing position among left-handers varies from culture to culture:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3736827&dopt=Abstract

Writing position is not fixed for left-handed children under the age of 10:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3736827&dopt=Abstract

Regardless of daft claims made that left-handedness is caused by prenatal or natal injury, there is quite a bit of evidence of heritability:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6664484&dopt=Abstract
(among many references)

And finally, I’m going to quote an abstract to emphasize a point:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12208004&dopt=Abstract

Of course, no amount of science will stop people repeating the lies against left-handedness, but at least there is some real research to counter them.

I think that left-handedness is inherited from one’s mother’s side. My mother was left-handed and so am I and so is one of my brothers. making two out of her three children lefties. My brother has a twin who is right-handed (I always found that odd that of twins one is a rightie, the other a lefty but that’s another subject) of the twins the right-handed one married a lefty, and the lefty married a righty married a righty. Sure enough one of the right-hander’s kids is left-handed, but the leftiy’s kids are both right-handed.