The Puzzle of Left-Handedness (40 page)

Latin
9
,
18
,
21
,
25
,
68
,
151–2
,
154–6
,
157

Leda
131–2
,
132

left (political)
72–6
,
217

left brain
147
,
161
,
182–3
,
186
,
188
,
192
,
195–6
,
200
,
230
,
232

left-/right-eared
206–7

left-/right-eyed
205–6

left-/right-footed
204
,
208

Lefthanders’ Association
251

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
14

Liepmann, Hugo
183
,
195

Limburg
67
,
94

liver
159–61

localization
181
,
191

Lombroso, Cesare
9
,
10
,
177
,
211–13
,
212

‘loony left’
75

love
23–4
,
38
,
40

Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken
117

Lucretia
131

Ludwig
II
of Bavaria
106

Lydian
154

Mach, Ernst
107

Madonna
135–6
,
138–9
,
138
,
139
,
142

‘Throwing Madonna’ theory
168
,
173

Maes, Nicolaas
125
,
126
,
130

magic
36–6
,
47
,
49
,
60
,
64

Malleus Maleficarum see Hammer of Witches

Manet, Edouard
127–8
,
128
,
133

manuscope
207–8

Mao Zedong
122
,
122
,
130

Maori
49

Marat, Jean-Paul
14

March of Progress
117
,
117

Marcus Aurelius
175

Marguerita,
infanta
136
,
137

Mariana of Austria
140

Marshall, E.
281

Masai
34

masturbation
24

McCain, John
284

McCarthy, Joseph
14

McCarthyism
14

McCartney, Paul
91

media
49–51
,
74–6
,
115
,
127

Mehmet ii, Sultan
151

Mendel, Gregor
218

Mendel’s laws,

Mendelian
164
,
202
,
218–23
,
235

mercy, in the right hand
48–9

Merlin
118

Mesopotamia
47

Michelangelo
40
,
41
,
42
,
84–5
,
178
,
273
,
283

Mikkelsen, Mads
55

Milner, Brenda
184

mimicry
195

minorities
52
,
57
,
66

mirror image, mirroring
100–2
,
104
,
109–13
,
111
,
143–4
,
144
,
153

mirror writing
271–4

mixed-handedness
83–5
,
215
,
223–4
,
224

Mongolian script
154

monkey, monkeys
55
,
201
see also
apes

Montelupo, Raffaello da
273

Mori, Masahiro
53–4

mortality
7–8
,
52
,
253
,
277–82

mice
8
,
201–2

murder
125–7
,
211–12
,
212

Mussolini, Benito
14

myth
17–18
,
31–2
,
118–19
,
261

Naitoh, Tomio
200

Namibia
27

Napoleon
63
,
131

Native Americans
43

natural selection
167
,
240
see also
evolution

Nazi, Nazi Germany
56
,
62
,
74

nerves, nervous system
104
,
175
,
196–8
,
197
,
207

Neuschwanstein
104
,
106

Niebuhr, Carsten
25

Nigeria
64

Nijmegen
67
,
89
,
192–3

Nixon, Richard M.
14
,
255

Obama, Barack
284

octopuses
100

olympia
133

Olympian gods
18

Olympic Games
19

one-handedness
16
,
80–88
,
92
,
158–9

oppression
14
,
36
,
241
,
278–9