Phys.Org May 15, 2026 • 17:00

Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk - Phys.org

By University of Oxford

Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk - Phys.org

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right hand—with no other primate species showing a population-level preference on this scale. Despite decades of research into the brains, genes …

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right handwith no other primate species showing a population-level preference on this… [+4084 chars]

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