How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed

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  @eons · 5 years ago · pinned

  Some commenters have pointed out that we say "after our lineage split with chimpanzees," "members of our lineage after the split with chimpanzees," and "after our split from chimpanzees" at various points in this episode. Just to clear things up, humans and our extinct relatives share a common ancestor with chimpanzees and their extinct relatives. After our lineage split from this common ancestor, we call our group "hominins." Living chimpanzees also have their own separate evolutionary history since that shared common ancestor.

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  @ashleysteinhaus9447 · 5 years ago

  I was actually born left handed But I had a stroke when I was very young which paralyzed the left side of my body meaning I had to grow up right handed instead. My favorite joke is “ I’m ambidextrous, I just can’t show you right now”

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  @brittneyziegler5742 · 5 years ago

  I appreciate that some of our best old evidence of this is from people basically punching themselves in the face on accident.

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• ST

  @stratocruising · 5 years ago

  Took a fencing course in college, was one of the best in the class. Finally went up against the other lefty. We engaged  and backed off perplexed. Nothing worked the way it was supposed to.

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• AS

  @AshHart12392 · 1 year ago

  “70-95% to be exact” 😂 that’s not quite exact

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• SI

  @Silver-Arrow · 5 years ago

  one of my teachers used to call me and other lefties a "silver surfer" because whenever we wrote an essay our hand would be covered in graphite

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• PL

  @ploutophylax · 5 years ago

  Leftie advantages: You always know what to say when the teacher asks a fact about yourself,  so you get to sit down quicker.

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• TI

  @timesathousand · 4 years ago

  There was a family I knew growing up where a lefty man had married a lefty woman. And they had customized their house to accommodate this: the door hinges, doorknob turns, the refrigerator door, the drawstrings for the blinds etc. Spending time there felt like living in an Escher painting.

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• CH

  @Charlesx396 · 2 years ago

  I always forget how rare it is these days to see a lefty until people point out that I’m left handed. It’s like they’ve never seen one of us before 😂

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• ZS

  @Zspr6597 · 5 years ago

  Being a Leftie is fine for me until I went to school where their armchairs only have a right arm rest.

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• UH

  @uhu-ihi · 5 years ago

  "70% to 95%  of us to be exact"... i chuckled

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  @rhidiandavies1991 · 5 years ago

  Being a right handed judo player, grappling with a lefty always feels awkward whereas for the lefty it's business as usual. What's really funny is when you see a really good lefty finally come up against another lefty, because they suddenly look like a beginner again, with neither player knowing how to actually set up their throws because they so rarely encounter one another.

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