When Do Right Handers Die?
In a Letter in the Current Issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Researchers Who Studied the Deaths of 1,000 Southern Californians Report That...
In a letter in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers who studied the deaths of 1,000 Southern Californians report that right-handers, on average, live to be 75 years old. Left-handers typically die at age 66. The trend was seen in both men and women.
Do right handers die earlier?
Left-handers tend to die, on average, about nine years earlier than right-handers, according to a surprising and controversial new study published today by California and Canadian researchers.
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Do you inherit right handedness?
Like many complex traits, handedness does not have a simple pattern of inheritance. Children of left-handed parents are more likely to be left-handed than are children of right-handed parents.
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