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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Scientists finally decode why most humans are right-handed

About 90 per cent of humans across all cultures favour their right hand for tasks, and this dominance of right-handedness may have started when early human ancestors began walking on two legs, a new study finds.

Decades of research into handedness across species has revealed that no other primate species showed a population-level preference on this scale.

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