The Right Hand: Left-HandednessCambridge University Press, 11.10.2012 - 234 Seiten Throughout history, left-handedness has been viewed as being the mark of the devil, as evidence of mental retardation or neurosis, as showing a predisposition to criminality, or as being linked to every perceived social ill. Even into the nineteenth century, many scientists were of the opinion that left-handedness was the sign of a sinister personality. An eminent ethnologist and one of the first scientific archaeologists, Daniel Wilson (1816-92), who introduced into English the word 'prehistoric', became aware of the fact that there were as many left-handed Stone Age implements as right. As a left-hander himself, he was fascinated by these discoveries. Published in 1891, his last major work gives the results of his studies of left-handedness, which he concludes is hereditary and relates to the dominance of one hemisphere of the brain. |
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CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 12 |
CHAPTER III | 23 |
CHAPTER IV | 31 |
CHAPTER V | 62 |
CHAPTER VI | 77 |
THE COMPASS Pomrs | 89 |
CHAPTER VIII | 97 |
CHAPTER IX | 119 |
CHAPTER X | 149 |
CHAPTER XI | 183 |
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