id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_i6322ydparc2bn4u637yhun6qi Amir Muzur Bioethics of handedness: from evolution to resolution? 2009 6 .pdf application/pdf 1869 208 65 Departing from historical facts and speculations on the evolution of human right-hand dominance (including theories on the development of right-handedness and cultural and linguistic Key words: left-right; handedness; bioethics; eugenics reveal a clear domination of right-handedness (Coren, 1992), we still have no (Hunt, Corballis, and Gray, 2001), but the hypertrophy in crabs or the dominant arm use in chimpanzees is randomly right or left (Napier, 1993). some other left-side brain structures, as well as of many functional asymmetries (Bryden, 1982; Corballis, 1983; Beaton, 1985; Kosslyn et al., 1999) do also have a left-hemisphere dominance for hand motor function, but there We also know that left-handedness is either genetic3 or pathological. The other cause of left-handedness seems to be a shift after pathological changes in the right hemisphere (Galaburda and Habib, 1989)4. Pathological left-handedness may be considered a marker of decreased York/London, USA/UK: Academic Press. New York, USA: Academic Press. ./cache/work_i6322ydparc2bn4u637yhun6qi.pdf ./txt/work_i6322ydparc2bn4u637yhun6qi.txt