{Left-Handers}[11th November 1990]

[Redbook8:110][19901111:1535b]{Left-Handers}[11th November 1990]

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*‘Older mothers have more left-handed babies’. Possibly because left-handedness has been shown to increase with birth-stress. There is also (the article records) ‘a range of problems which left-handers experience more than right-handers do – for instance, sleep disruptions, migraine, headaches and allergies. They also tend on average to reach sexual maturity a few months later than right-handers’; and ‘“overall, the left-handers run** about a half-inch shorter and about 3 pounds lighter than the right-handed....”’ The last feature could be due to the next-to-last. Unlike animals, nine out of ten individuals are right-handed.***

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***[The paragraph ends with a closing quote mark ’ in the ms but it is not clear where that quote began]

****[The writer later discovered from his education file that at the age of about four he was discovered to be left-handed but was quickly re-educated into right-handedness]

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