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So what if neurobiologists think lefties can be traced back to a mutation that occurred 200,000 years ago, that flip-flopped our hemispheric specialization, language, and higher cognitive functioning. So what if we’re more likely to suffer from dyslexia, schizophrenia, stuttering and tend to be more absent-minded. So what if leading primatologist Bill Hopkins proved that the more primitive the primate, the more likely they’re lefties. Lemurs and other prosimians are 75% lefties; macaques and other old-world monkeys are 50/50; gorillas and chimpanzees are 35% lefties, and only 10% of humans are southpaws. So what if “left” derives fro the Old English lyft, meaning “weak” or “useless.” That, in Latin, lefty translates to “sinister,” and that in the Bible we’re “cursed into everlasting fire.”Leonardo Da Vinci. Isaac Newton. Pablo Picasso. Neil Armstrong. Michelangelo. Aristotle. Raphael. Albert Einstein. Cole Porter. Benjamin Franklin. Bill Gates. Brad Pitt. Helen Keller. Babe Ruth. Alexander the Great. Joan of Arc. Chaplin. John McEnroe. Henry Ford. Paul McCartney. Beethoven. Mark Twain. Julius Caesar. Harpo Marx. General Colin Powell. Lou Gehrig. Robert DeNiro. Steve Forbes. Robert Redford. Sylvester Stallone. Spike Lee. Paul Simon. Napoleon Bonaparte. Oprah Winfrey. Edward R. Murrow. Charlie Chaplin. Clarence Darrow. H.G. Welles. James Baldwin. Jean Genet. Edwin Buzz Aldrin. David Rockefeller. Ramses II. David Letterman. Charlemagne. H. Norman Schwartzkopf. Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Tiberius. August Piccard. Bob Dylan. Ty Cobb. Primate that. |
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