The Puzzle of Left-Handedness (43 page)

violin, violinists
90–92
,
90

vision
104–14
,
107
,
111
,
144

visual cortex
104–9
,
107

Vulcan
128
,
130

Wachagga
27
,
33

Wada, Juhn Atsushi
186–7

Wada test
186–7
Wageia-Kavirondo
33

Wagenaar, Willem Albert
119
,
122

Wagner, Richard
106
,

warfare
17
,
27
,
30
,
31
,
33
,
77–9

Wassersug, Richard
200

wedding ceremony
40
,
142

Wernicke, Carl
183

Wernicke’s area
182

Wharram Percy
86

Wile, Ira S.
87

Willis, Circle of
161

Winnie the Pooh
98
,
260

Wiseman, Joseph
54

witches
36–8
,
60–61
,
61
,
64–70
,

witch-hunts
60
,
64–70

Wittgenstein, Paul
92

Wood, E. K.
277–8

Wrangham, Richard
174

Wright, Wilbur and Orville
79

writing
10–11
,
24
,
81
,
84
,
93
,
122–3
,
148
,
150–7
,
215
,
263–4
,
267–76
,
281

X-rays
79

Yemen, Yemeni
25–6
,
26
,
148
see also
Arabia Felix

Yin and Yang
29–31
,
33
,
52

Zangwill, Oliver
184

Zeus
18
,
261

Zumbohm, Gaspar
153–4

Table of Contents

Front Cover

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

1 Malice and Misunderstanding

2 The Left-handed Picador

3 Opposites and Contradictions

4 Taboos, Sex and Handicrafts

5 Lovers of the Left

6 Magic and Superstition

7 The True Nature of Left and Right

8 Strange Creatures in the Uncanny Valley

9 Witchcraft and Pogroms

10 Factionalism

11 The Ideal Warrior

12 The Polymorphism of One-sidedness

13 The Heart of the Matter

14 The Power of Small Differences

15 How Freud Found his Right Side and Pooh Didn’t

16 Why a Running Rabbit Doesn’t Tear Itself Apart

17 Tintin’s Law

18 Dead Men and Voluptuous Women

19 Mary’s Little Troublemaker and Other Portraits

20 Little Johnny Cries to the Left, Little Johnny Smiles to the Left

21 The Circle Dance of the Alphabet

22 The Weight of the Liver

23 The Morbid Views of Abram Blau

24 Thwacking and Hurling

25 Thinking About Brains

26 Animal Crackers

27 Other Asymmetries and Preferences

28 Tallying Up

29 Genetic Left-handedness

30 Hormonal Left-handedness

31 How Even Detrimental Characteristics Can Survive

32 Left-handers as Undercover Twins

33 The Consequences: Contrary, Perverse and Sick

34 Two Left Hands: The Ford Scale

35 The Things That Things Make Us Do

36 Writing and Other Useful Handiwork

37 The Myth of High Left-handed Mortality

38 Creative, Musical, Brilliant and Famous!

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX