Why Are We Right Handed

ness for according to himself uncivilized man tends to the same practice. The wild aborigines in the Andaman Islands use their right hands for the actual discharge of the arrow from the bow. It is the same with semi-civilized races on the N. W. Frontier, in Somaliland, and elsewhere that I have observed. Let Ur. Jaensch more carefully observe an infant and he will see its pronounced tendency to use the right hand more than the left. At football, a beginner invariably uses his right leg and usually uses it, even when an expert, with greater facility and effect than the left. In swimming, the same stress on the right arm is used. There is no question of education here, it is a natural act pure and simple. The cases you quote in a note to Dr. Jaensch's letter