Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON OUR RIGHT handedness THIS may sound like another of those perplexing posers propound ed by I 1 enfant terrible but does no everything tn nature point to right handedness as an artificially acquired habit rather than a congenital ghys phys leal peculiarity lucre Is nothing in animal life to show why of two perfectly matched limbs we should choose to use one almost to the exclusion of the other why the right should be unconscious ly trained to hae more strength an practically all the dexterity so long has man been right handed that be has become almost right shded it you take the trouble to observe son will see that involuntarily he puts for ward his right foot in starting to run and you can always hop easier and longer on the right than on the left if the non corn 3 left right does not resound to the end of the line he will probably have half of bis march ers out of step because those who do not hear will start right e are right handed because early in mans fighting career which goes back as far as adam and eve it was discovered that the heart Is the most vulnerable part of the body and that injury to it of all organs Is fatal therefore every warrior aiming at left breast which 0 course wis directly opposite bis right hand held his abow and arrow to his right shoulder hurled javelins with hla right hand and with mace battle ax or sword fenced against the shields held over the region of alg adversary heart |