why are people left handed?

Answer 1

GENETICS and INHERITANCE...runs in the family.

Righties: Creative (left side of brain)
Lefties: Intellingent (right side of brain)

Certain sides of the brain are more dominant.

Answer 2

The reason is simple, children are born with the ability to use both left and right hands and as the child grows the dominant hand presents itself. The genetic predisposition that people presume is active as soon as the child is born in actuality remains dormant until the child increases their gross and fine motor skills as they further grow and develop. The brain control is split to the left and right side appanges depending on the nerve crossover (there have been cases of left handed individuals who were left brain dominant with predominant left appandage use. In short it is a combination of genetics, predispopsition, development cycle and neural pathways.

Answer 3

In my case - defiance. :-)

I was raised in one of the last schools where teachers went about "training" children to use their right hand, out of some warped sense of religious zeal (even now, the word "sinister" means "evil" as much as it means "leans to the left", and people still mutter darkly of "followers of the Left Hand Path" in occult and Christian circles).

This "training" the teachers offered consisted of striking the offending left hand, very hard, over the knuckles with a ruler.

I was actually fully ambidexterous until my "training" began. After a time, someone wisely decided that a school which had a policy of injuring kids was a school full of teachers all lining up to be sued, and the "training " stopped.

Other children emerged from this too late - they came out right handed, with chronic stutters - one dreadful side effect of such "training". I came out of it jubilantly, defiantly left handed, with vestiges of ambidexterity, and a nice, balanced personality, though with a predilection toward rebellion for the rest of my life.

Handedness is often as much a matter of choice and personal effort to force your brain to learn new tricks as it is about genetics. How do you think stroke victims whose writing hand is paralysed eventually learn to write again with their free hand?

Answer 4

Genetics maybe, Both my parents are right handed and I am left handed.

Answer 5

The right side of their brains is more active than the left.

Answer 6

Because their right hand side of their brain is stronger than their left (vise versa for right handed people).

Answer 7

i am left handed , even i dont know why, but left handed people are generally artistic, but i eat with my fork in my left hand like a right handed person coz my mum thought i looked odd eating with the fork in my right hand. i think that explains a lot about me..............

Answer 8

Because some people will do anything to be different from the majority.

Answer 9

because they are not right handed

Answer 10

because the right hand side of their brain is more active