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The Dextrous And The Gibble-fisted

Robert Macfarlane RIGHT HAND, LEFT HAND: THE ORIGINS OF ASYMMETRY IN BRAINS, BODIES, ATOMS AND CULTURES by Chris McManus Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 412, ISBN 0297645978 I n the 1950s......

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