Why Am I Left-Handed?
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once.
The short version
- The post Why Am I Left-Handed? first appeared on Quanta Magazine.
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- W hen I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror.
What happened
The post Why Am I Left-Handed? first appeared on Quanta Magazine. An editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation.
Why it matters
Being left-handed, I was imitating the hand strokes of my right-handed teachers instead of reversing their strokes to replicate the letters.
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