right or left

[kabuto]

what causes right-handedness or left-handedness in human?

[victor]

Habits, tendency and genetics

[VeenaandNivyah]

can it judge how intelligent a person is ??????

[kiekyon]

Researchers who study human hand preference agree that the side of the preferred hand (right versus left) is produced by biological and, most likely, genetic causes. The two most widely published genetic theories of human hand preference argue that evolutionary natural selection produced a majority of individuals with speech and language control in the left hemisphere of the brain. Because the left hemisphere also controls the movements of the right hand–and notably the movements needed to produce written language–millennia of evolutionary development resulted in a population of humans that is biased genetically toward individuals with left hemisphere speech/language and right-hand preference. Approximately 85 percent of people are right-handed. These theories also try to explain the persistent and continuing presence of a left-handed minority (about 15 percent of humans).
The genetic proposal to explain hand preference states that there are two alleles, or two manifestations of a gene at the same genetic location, that are associated with handedness. One of these alleles is a D gene (for dextral, meaning “right”) and the other allele is a C gene (for “chance”). The D gene is more frequent in the population and is more likely to occur as part of the genetic heritage of an individual. It is the D gene that promotes right-hand preference in the majority of humans. The C gene is less likely to occur within the gene pool, but when it is present, the hand preference of the individual with the C gene is determined randomly. Individuals with the C gene will have a 50 percent chance of being right-handed and a 50 percent chance of being left-handed.

These theories of hand preference causation are intriguing because they can account for the fact that the side of hand preference of individuals with the C gene (most left-handers and some right-handers) can be influenced by external cultural and societal pressures, a phenomenon that researchers have documented. These theories can also explain the presence of right-handed children in families with left-handed parents and the presence of left-handed children in families with right-handed parents. If the familial genetic pool contains C genes, then hand preference becomes amenable to chance influences, including the pressures of familial training and other environmental interventions that favor the use of one hand over the other. The proposed genetic locus that determines hand preference contains an allele from each parent, and the various possible genetic combinations are DD individuals who are strongly right-handed, DC individuals who are also mostly right-handed, and CC individuals who are either right-handed or left-handed. These genetic combinations leave us with an overwhelming majority of human right-handers and a small, but persistently occurring, minority of left-handers.

[kiekyon]

quote VeenaandNivyah:

can it judge how intelligent a person is ??????

A common belief suggests that left-handed people are more intelligent or creative than right-handed people, and this theory is supported by some evidence.

In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand[10], Chris McManus of University College London, argues that the proportion of left-handers is rising and left-handed people as a group have historically produced an above-average quota of high achievers. He says that left-handers’ brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of the language centres of the brain.

In Britain, around 13% of men and 11% of women are now left-handed, compared to just 3% of those born before 1910. McManus suggests a number of factors that may be driving this increase:

1. Left-handers were severely discriminated against during the 18th and 19th centuries and it was often "beaten out" of people
2. In adulthood, left-handers were often shunned by society, resulting in fewer marrying and reproducing
3. As discrimination was reduced in the 20th century, the number of natural left-handers who stayed left-handed increased
4. The rising age of motherhood contributed as, statistically, older mothers are more likely to give birth to left-handed children

McManus says that the increase could produce a corresponding intellectual advance and a leap in the number of mathematical, sporting or artistic geniuses.

Unfortunately, it is not all good news for left-handers. They tend to be over-represented at both ends of the intellectual scale, and as well as geniuses, the group also produces a disproportionately high number of those with learning handicaps. There have been suggestions of links between left-handedness and dyslexia, stuttering, and child autism, among other disabilities.

[VeenaandNivyah]

quote kiekyon:

quote VeenaandNivyah:

can it judge how intelligent a person is ??????

A common belief suggests that left-handed people are more intelligent or creative than right-handed people, and this theory is supported by some evidence.

That’s the point… you see I know some left-handers who are total dunces. So is it possible that every left-habder is intelligent???
VeenaandNivyah

[kabuto]

in my opinion, the left handed wont be any smarter than the right-handed. if they are, chances are they would be dominant in today’s population. i have heard that they are better fighter though

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