HuffPost: Study Shows That Left-handers Are Not the Product of Witchcraft After All

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I had one of those weeks where I suddenly had several ideas for articles at The Huffington Post. Given that I was breaking away from a couple of months of writer’s block, I indulged myself. “Study Shows That Left-handers Are Not the Product of Witchcraft After All” is my newest and it appears in the science section of HuffPost.

A new study at Northwestern University shows that left-handedness is the product of cooperation and competition in evolution (see ScienceDaily, “Shedding Light On Southpaws: Sports Data Help Confirm Theory Explaining Left-Handed Minority in General Population”).

Being left-handed, I am among the minority of the population (10 percent), and this study by Daniel M. Abrams and Mark J. Panaggio (see “A Model Balancing Cooperation and Competition Can Explain Our Right-handed World and the Dominance of Left-handed Athletes” in The Journal of the Royal Society Interface) shows why. The highly social nature of humanity tends toward cooperation, and in this case, this means right-handedness. Continue reading the full article at The Huffington Post.