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Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution.

Source Phys.org AI Summary Updated May 15, 2026

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It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right hand—with no other primate species showing a population-level preference on this scale. Despite decades of research into the brains, genes and development behind handedness, why humans ended up so overwhelmingly right-handed has remained an evolutionary enigma.

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