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 ...

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.

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.

Hand or paw preferences are seen in a wide variety of species from other great apes to cats, dogs and amphibians, frequently favouring the right but not always. Even fish have been observed to ...

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 ...