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Left-handed people only make up about 10% of the world's population — so you might be surprised to learn how many of them have been world leaders, artists, well-known athletes, award-winning actors.
Joan Lunden (born Joan Elise Blunden, September 19, 1950) is an American journalist, an author, and a television host. Lunden was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997, and has authored over ten books. She has appeared on the Biography program and Biography Channel.
Historically, there have been few left-handed catchers because of the perceived disadvantage a left-handed catcher would have in making the throw to third base, especially with a right-handed hitter at the plate. [91] A left-handed catcher would have a potentially more dangerous time tagging out a baserunner trying to score. [91]
Ambidexterity is the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well. [1] [2] When referring to objects, the term indicates that the object is equally suitable for right-handed and left-handed people. When referring to humans, it indicates that a person has no marked preference for the use of the right or left hand.
About 10% of people in the world are left-handed. Lefties have to endure lots of little daily struggles righties might not think about. Swiping credit cards and cutting with scissors are just two ...
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In mice (Mus musculus), laterality in paw usage has been shown to be a learned behavior (rather than inherited), [10] due to which, in any population, half of the mice become left-handed while the other half becomes right-handed. The learning occurs by a gradual reinforcement of randomly occurring weak asymmetries in paw choice early in ...
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