John Cowan wrote:
>I no more could
>learn to eat left-handed than I could learn to walk on my hands.
>The distinction is not about preference, but about capability.
As a child (and still to this day), I always ate using a knife and fork in
the "wrong" hands- fork in the ringht hand and knife in the left, and I'm
right handed. Most of the left-handers I know don't eat this way/
> > And I'm pretty sure if left-handed people hadn't been persecuted for
> centuries
> > the amount would be much more balanced.
>
>I doubt it. Apes don't seem to be lateralized, but Neanderthals were -- the
>pattern of teeth wear shows that they held hides in their right hands to
>strip the flesh off them with their jaws. Of 20 individuals measured,
>18 showed right-handed wear.
Is being right- or left-handed restricted to humans? I've always been
curious about this.
> > > Umm, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work for females too.
> >
> > Because it involves holding a body part that women usually lack ;))))) .
>
>That too is a continuum. :-) But to come to the point, there is
>nothing about manual-genital contact that is a strictly male behavior:
>on the contrary.
I don't think I'll add to this one! ;o)
Dan
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