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  2. Twins and handedness - Wikipedia

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    If the parents are both right-handed, in dizygotic and monozygotic twins there is a 21% chance of one being left-handed. If one parent is left-handed, in DZ and MZ twins there is a 57% chance of one being left-handed. If both parents are left-handed, it is almost certain one twin will be left-handed. [citation needed]

  3. Handedness - Wikipedia

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    Into the 20th and even the 21st century, left-handed children in Uganda were beaten by schoolteachers or parents for writing with their left hand, [121] or had their left hands tied behind their backs to force them to write with their right hand. [122] As a child, the future British king George VI (1895–1952) was naturally left-handed. He was ...

  4. 24 Things You Didn't Know About Left-Handed People - AOL

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    Older Women Have More Left-Handed Babies. According to one Canadian study, women in their 30s and 40s were far more likely to have left-handed children than younger women. A study of 2,228 college ...

  5. International Lefthanders Day - Wikipedia

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    The holiday celebrates left-handed people's uniqueness and differences, a subset of humanity comprising seven to ten percent of the world's population. [3] The day also spreads awareness on issues faced by left-handers, e.g. the importance of the special needs for left-handed children, and the likelihood for left-handers to develop schizophrenia.

  6. 14 things you never knew about left-handed people - AOL

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    Only 10 percent of the population is left-handed. While there may not be many of them, being left-handed sure does come with some surprising perks! 14 things you never knew about left-handed people

  7. Pre-K teacher calls left-handed people 'evil,' forces boy to ...

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    A Pre-K teacher in Oklahoma is in hot water after a mother says the teacher forced her son to write with his right hand, despite the child being left-handed, according to KFOR. Alisha Sands said ...

  8. Ambidexterity - Wikipedia

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    Also, naturally left-handed musicians have to play with right-handed-only instruments (violin, viola, cello). Kurt Cobain, frontman of Nirvana, was naturally ambidextrous. He grew up having a slight preference for his left-hand (as can be seen in many of his childhood photographies), but as an adult he wrote right-handed.

  9. Neuroanatomy of handedness - Wikipedia

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    Left-handers who were forced during childhood to use their right hand showed a larger surface area of the central sulcus in their left hemisphere, which is associated with right-handedness. Also, structures in the basal ganglia such as the putamen also mirrored developmental right-hand dominant individuals in the forced group.