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Science 11 November 1977:
Vol. 198. no. 4317, pp. 631 - 632
DOI: 10.1126/science.335510
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Science, Vol 198, Issue 4317, 631-632
Copyright © 1977 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Fifty centuries of right-handedness: the historical record

S Coren and C Porac

A survey of more than 5000 years of art work, encompassing 1180 scorable instances of unimanual tool or weapon usage, revealed no systematic trends in hand usage. The right hand was used in an average of 93 percent of the cases, regardless of which historical era or geographic region was assessed.


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