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Articles on right-handedness
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10% of people are left-handed but we still haven’t uncovered how this changes the way their brains work.
Handedness is the tendency to prefer using one hand over the other to perform certain tasks. But how did we get this way?
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Thomas Merritt is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University
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