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Cross Wired
One of the more startling things I learned in basic biology when I was in grade school was that our brains are cross-wired to our bodies. You know, left side of the brain controls the right side of body, & visa-versa. Worse, nobody could really explain why this was. Well, today in the Washington Post there's an article about a group of scientists who think they've figured it out. Turns out it has to do with basic optics and the evolution of limbs as locomotion.
Interesting about the reason for a dominant side being an evolutionary process. I've seen a lot about how the majority (about 90%) are right handed but I have seen nothing about mixed cross wiring. I am left eye dominant and right handed so I wonder if there is any research on this or how rare it is.
- TC
Posted by: Tom Crane on December 4, 2005 11:16 PM