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akk0 6 hours ago

The article searches hard for an evolutionary explanation for why right-handedness specifically would be favored, but I think it suffices to find a reason for most people to have the same handedness, and then right-or-left can just be a coinflip. Most people having the same handedness does seem "better". Author stays by retelling a learning challenge they had as a child because of opposite handedness, I think that general idea for instance would generalize to the ancestral environment.

akk0 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Another example: my partner is left-handed, I am right-handed. We dabble in instruments together; we have a right-handed bass guitar, and an electronic drum kit we set up in a traditionally left-handed way. Both very doable, but there's definitely a debuff when learning from someone else. We're very monkey see monkey do.

I think the "sharp weapon" hypothesis is interesting and favors "why right and not left?" but I think it's too specific and unnecessary to explain the more important "why 90-10?".