If you're a right-handed person, you might be curious about what it's like to be left-handed.After all, it still seems like something that is quite unique, as even science says it's still a pretty ...

Here are how the percentage of plate appearances have broken down among left-handed, right-handed, and switch-hitting players over the last 32 years: Now, we might be onto something. While the playing ...

Most humans (say 70 percent to 95 percent) are right-handed, a minority (say 5 percent to 30 percent) are left-handed, and an indeterminate number of people are probably best described as ...

If both parents of a child are left-handed, there is a 26% chance of that child being left-handed. In 2006 a study of twins from 25,732 families suggest just 24 per cent had inherited it.

But whether being left or right-handed is down to genetics, environmental factors or a combination of the two, it is clear that being left-handed is still somewhat of a rarity.

Ancient bones suggest "lefties" have been coping with a right-handed world for more than half a million years. A study of Homo heidelbergensis , an ancestor of Neanderthals, seems to show that the ...

Subjects were designated as right-handers if they wrote, drew, and threw a ball with the right hand. All other subjects (left-handers and mixed-handers) were assigned to a non-right-handed group.