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Article #1519Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
From: Gordon E. Banks
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 15:48
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 15:48
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In article <6091@crash.cts.com> rcf@pnet01.cts.com (Bob Forsythe) writes: > > Nope. Handedness is determined by several things, but cultural or >individual imperitatives are not among them. Currently, there are 3 While most people have a "natural" handedness, it can be changed if done forcefully at an early age. Yes, we can usually tell if someone has been changed (even if they don't remember). Those who were changed are always left handers changed to right, usually older people who went to catholic schools. For some reason about 40 years ago, nuns who taught grade school forced leftys to write with the right hands. Parents also forced young children to change. Some tricks you can use is to see if the person is left-eyed and left footed. If so, you might suspect they were changed. The practice seems to be dying out, and parents and nuns no longer do this. Another reason people may be forced to change is a stroke of the dominent hemisphere. If this happens in a young child, they will become normally dextrous in the non-dominant hand. Older people will probably never become as dextrous as they were if this happens later.
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