Left Handed ?

I always believed that left handedness was so uncommon because previously children were punished for writing with their left hand.

This was attempted with my grandfather, however his father stepped in when he got his first beating.

In any case, there is no one cause for someone being left handed, the answers above give has a pretty good indication of why people are left-handed.

An interesting phenomenon in our family…almost all of my cousins are left handed, on both sides of the family. So am I and my brother.

Hello! No one honestly knows why there are way more right-handed people than left, or ambidextrous. There are various theories, but in 160 years of study, no facts have been discovered. So just view yourself being left-handed, as special! Take Care! Don

Being left handed is a recessive trait (not sure on the spelling there sorry). It’s the same as looking at brunetts vs red heads. There are far more brunetts then there are natural red heads. It doesnt mean you’re weird or wrong or anything its just tends to get over powerd by the right handed gene.

Hope that helps

I found this as I looking for an answer that would help me help you. “Division of labor is the most commonly accepted theory of handedness. The premise of this theory is that since both speaking and handy-work require fine motor skills, having one hemisphere of the brain do both would be more efficient than having it divided up. Also, if all functions were carried out in both hemispheres, the size of the brain and its energy consumption would increase, which is not affordable. Since in most people, the left side of the brain controls speaking, right-handedness would prevail. It also predicts that left-handed people would have a reversed brain division of labor.” as I think about it, when your a baby, you decide then what hand you use today. and we are all the same on the inside anyways! well I hope I helped a bit also.