The Right Hand: Left-handedness

accordingly acquired habit action adapted affirms ambidextrous ancient appears arrow-head arrow-maker artery Benjamite bias body Book of Judges brain Buchanan centre of gravity cerebral hemisphere characters chipping civilised confirmed dheas difference direction distinction drawing edge Egyptian Eskimo evidence example experience facility fashioned favour fingers flake flint flint-workers foot greater Greek handedness hieroglyphics idea illustrations Indians indicate influence instinctive preference La Madelaine language left hand left hemisphere left side left-handed persons left-handedness less looking lower limb majority manifest manipulation ments muscular natural nearly Neolithic noted observation obsidian occur operations organic structure palæolithic physiologists practice preferential prevalent primitive Professor Hyrtl quadruped races recognised remarks result reversed right and left right hand right hemisphere right side right to left savage sculptures skill stone subclavian subclavian artery suggested term Thoth thumb tion traces transposition tribe of Benjamin tribes usage Vézère viscera weight woolly rhinoceros writing