The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes and Consequences of Left-Handedness - Stanley Coren

The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes & Consequences of Left-Handedness, Stanley Coren (Psychology/Science) A very interesting though not particularly well written book that is a good example of how an entire world can be opened before your eyes when you pay attention to something that might seem fairly trivial. In this case, it's "handedness": the propensity of human beings to favor one or another hand, mostly, in every culture and period that's been surveyed so far, the right. In every known culture too, except the Chinese, lefthandedness is associated with clumsiness or misfortune (for example, sinister and gauche are the Latin and French ...  Read the complete review