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Letter: Left footedness

Published 16 November 2005

From Rowan Fothergill

I’m not surprised there are not many strong left-handers in the human population: from a very young age children are subjected to a right-handed world and must adapt accordingly. I was wondering, though, whether humans have a left/right footedness which could be measured (ease of balance when standing on one or other leg, for example) and whether left-handers are also left-footers. It would seem logical to presume that footedness is subject to less cultural bias than handedness and may therefore give a more accurate representation of left/right preference in the human species.

Birmingham, UK

Issue no. 2526 published 19 November 2005

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