Researchers from the University of St Andrews have collaborated with a multinational team of researchers from Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK to explore the intriguing connection between ...

While the days of forcing left-handed children to use their right hands are mostly over, the bias against lefties continues in most languages around the world.

Globally, 10.6 percent of people are left-handers, while the remaining 89.4 percent are right-handers (Papadatou-Pastou et al., 2020). While it is known that handedness is influenced by both genetic ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who don't show a hand preference are more likely than their righty or lefty peers to perform poorly in school, a new study in the journal Pediatrics shows. And ...

(CN) — A vast majority of humanity uses their right hand to write and for other skills, but a good 10% of us are left hand dominant. But why do some people use one hand and not the other? According to ...

(CNN) -- For the first time, scientists have identified the genetic differences associated with left-handedness, a trait found in 10% of the human population. What's more, those genetic variants ...

Steak knives, scissors, writing desks, and power tools: If you bring any of these things up around someone and they cringe, they either have a bizarre story to tell or they’re just left-handed, and, ...

There is no single gene for handedness Since the mid-1980s more than 100 journal articles have explored the idea that a single gene might influence handedness. These theories suggested one variant of ...