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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 07:55 PM
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Study: Most Wild Chimps Are Southpaws
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
2 hours, 7 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - When it comes to fishing tasty termites out of their mounds, wild chimpanzees don't have the right stuff. Most, in fact, are southpaws. A three-year study of 17 wild chimps in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, found that 12 of them used their left hands when using sticks to probe for termites.

Four were right-handed and one was listed as ambiguously handed.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050815/ap_on_sc/southpaw_chimps
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 07:57 PM
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1. i've found the the the rare chimp
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:06 PM
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2. Heh heh..... he throws like a girl..... nt.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:14 PM
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3. We were most likely the same before the bronze age
Pretend you are a Greek phalanx/Chinese conscript/Aztec warrior/Nubian spear man/whatever

You have a spear and a shield.

Which hand do you hold your spear? Which hand do you hold your shield?

Southpaws will notice that their heart/lungs are exposed. That's why there are less of you. Nothing to do with superiority/inferiority.

Shhhhh...Don't tell the creationists. Genetics are a myth! :sarcasm:
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