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May 20, 2012

right-handed adj.: dextral

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The researchers reckon that a child with two right-handed parents has a 91% probability of being righthanded [but] even if identical twins have parents who are both dextral, factors such as their position in the womb may result in the twins not preferring the same hands. (Economist, “Sinister Evolution: Population Genetics,” 8/26/1995, p. 69.)

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