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Enneagram Type 5 Board Archive handedness...Posted by isaac on November 15, 2001 at 03:13:35: In Reply to: Re: Left Handed Thinking posted by Primer Gray on November 14, 2001 at 23:29:55: there's a bunch of things i do left-handed. i juggle and devil stick left handed. and i've been told i eat left-handed. and there's a few other tasks that my left hand is better at that i don't feel like discussing here. i'm certainly right-handed, but it seems like it's easier to learn right-handed things with my left hand than the other way around. i would be able to play guitar left handed, excpet that my right hand can't handle fingering. my left can do picking, tho, even finger picking. handedness is a wierd phenomenon. seems to me to have moer to do with distribution of labor between hands than with simply preferring one over the other. you hold the stick and the rock with the left hand while you tie it on with the right, that kinda thing. makes perfect sense evolutionarily. ya know, they used to think that the reason humans were mostly right-handed was evolved fromthe practice of fighting with a weapon and a shield, since it's safer to have the shield in teh left hand. but i read an article on msnbc a while back that said that a study of chimps and gorillas found that they're also predominantly right-handed, in about teh same proportion as humans. they were slightly less strict in their preferrence tho (higher degree of ambidexterity) which makes sense if you consider that a lot of their activities are necessarily 2-handed; climbing through trees and whatnot. but they tend to lead with their right side, in much the same way that there's a difference between how right- and left-handed people walk. and all primates (regardless of handedness) tend to hold a baby in their left arm. it's a fascinating phenomenon. isaac
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