The Puzzle of Left-Handedness (37 page)

block letters
149–50
,
152

board games
45
,

Bond, James
35
,
54

Book of Judges
34

brain
102–3
,
104–14
,
144–7
,
161
,
171–4
,
175–98
,
199–200
,
246–7

amnion
233
,
245

brain damage
228–34
,
257
,

brain surgery
185
,
199

cerebral cortex
103
,
110
,
178
,
182
,
185

cerebral hemisphere
9
,
106–7
,
109
,
144–7
,
161
,
172
,
175
,
183–9
,
193–6
,
207
,
270
,
283

cerebrum
144
,
178–80

commissures
144

corpus callosum
103
,
107–8
,
144–5
,
146
,
185

motor cortex
181
,
182
,
183
,
193

Briand, Aristide
217

Britain, Britons
25
,
54
,
74–5
,
82
,
184
,
213
,
251
,
279–80
,
281
,
283

Broca, Paul
181–2
,
181
,
182
,
187

Broca’s Law
187

Broca’s area
182–3

Browne, Sir Thomas
159

Buchanan, Andrew
160–61

Burchfield, Geoff
8

Burt, Cyril
213
,
252
,
255

Bush, George H. W.
284

Bush, George W.
12–13
,
284

calligraphy
150–51

Calvin, William H.
168–74
,
195
,
249

cancer
229
,
253

card games
44–5

Carlyle, Thomas
71–2
,
167–8

carotid arteries
161

Carroll, Lewis
102

Carter, Jimmy
284

Casals, Pablo
93

Casasanto, Daniel
95
,
194

Chaplin, Charlie
91
,
285

China, Chinese
29–33
,
57
,
122–3
,
149–50
,
150
,
154
,
222

Chomsky, Noam
75

Christianity, Christian
14
,
18
,
40–42
,
58
,
61
,
65–6

Anglicanism,

Anglican
44
,
66

Catholicism,

Catholic
39–40
,
44
,
58

see also
Judeo-Christian

chromosomes
162
,
218–20
,
219
,
234–5

Churchill, Winston
25
,
217

Clemenceau, Georges
217

Cleopatra
131

Clinton, Bill
284

clockwise
45–6
,
258
see also
anticlockwise

clothing
50
,
263

clumsiness
48
,
58
,
189
,
213
,
255–60

coalition of the willing
12–13

Combe, George
178
,
179

comic strips
115
,
117
,
119–22

Congo
45
,
121–2

Conrad, Klaus
187

Corballis, Michael
8

Coren, Stanley
7–8
,
9
,
252
,
258–60
,
277–82
,
283

creativity
188–9
,
257–8
,
283

criminality
211–13
,
212
,
252–3

Cronus
261

Croton
19

cuneiform script
156–7
,
156

Cybele
18

Cyrillic script
152
,
156

Darwin, Charles
79
,
116–17
,
163
,
235

Darwinian
240

Darwin’s finches
235–6
,
236

Dax, Marc
181

Day of Judgment
34

Death
43

defensive reflex
279–80

Demeter
18

Demotic script
152–3

Devil, devilish
18
,
21
,
37
,
40–42
,
58
,
60
,
61
,
62
,
65–6
,
69