Among the 41 primate species examined, humans stand apart in their fierce loyalty to the right hand — a peculiarity that, for decades, resisted evolutionary explanation. A new comparative study suggests this is no accident of culture or chance, but the downstream consequence of two of our most defining transformations: the expansion of the brain and the liberation of the hands that came with walking upright. In the long arc of hominin evolution, it appears that thinking more and standing tall quietly rewired which hand we reach with.
Brain size and bipedalism explain why most humans are right-handed
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Science reporting presents comparative primate study findings on right-handedness with neutral, explanatory framing and no apparent ideological bias.
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