Fifty centuries of right-handedness: The historical record

Stanley Coren; Clare Kathleen Porac

doi:10.1126/science.335510

Fifty centuries of right-handedness: The historical record

Stanley Coren
, Clare Kathleen Porac

School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend)

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	631-632
Number of pages	2
Journal	Science
Volume	198
Issue number	4317
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.335510
State	Published - Jan 1 1977

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