TY - JOUR
T1 - Fifty centuries of right-handedness
T2 - The historical record
AU - Coren, Stanley
AU - Porac, Clare Kathleen
PY - 1977/1/1
Y1 - 1977/1/1
N2 - A survey of more than 5000 years of art works, encompassing 1180 scorable instances unimanual tool or weapon usage, revealed no systematic trends in hand usage. The right hand was used in an average of 93 percent of the cases, regardless of which historical era or geographic region was assessed.
AB - A survey of more than 5000 years of art works, encompassing 1180 scorable instances unimanual tool or weapon usage, revealed no systematic trends in hand usage. The right hand was used in an average of 93 percent of the cases, regardless of which historical era or geographic region was assessed.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.335510
DO - 10.1126/science.335510
M3 - Article
C2 - 335510
AN - SCOPUS:0017661025
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 198
SP - 631
EP - 632
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 4317
ER -