The Puzzle of Left-Handedness (41 page)

Orwell, George
56

Osiris
48

Ovambo
27

Ovimbundu
28

Paglia, Camille
51

painters, painting
97
,
104
,
115
,
120–34
,
135–42
,
166–7

Palatino, Giovanni Batista
272

Parson, Beaufort Sims
207–8

paw preference
8
,
199–202
,
222–3

Pech Merle
166
,
167

penetration
234–5
,
237

perjury
36

Perot, Henry Ross
284

persecution
60–70
,
240–41

phrenology
178–82
,
179
,
180

piano, pianists
89–92
,
91

Picasso, Pablo
11–12
,
13
,
283

pigeons
99–100
,
106
,
112
,
181

Piombo, Sebastiano del
273

plants, plant material
16
,
96
,
218
,
222

Plato
158–9

polarization
12–14
,
20–21
,
41–2

polydactyly
235

Portnoy, Ethel
94

portraits
119–21
,
121
,
135–42

Poseidon
18

pregnancy
244–7

presidency,
US
284

Prometheus
128
,
130
,
133

prostitutes
133
,
252

Putin, Vladimir
145

Pye-Smith, P. H.
168

Pythagoras
19–21
,
34
,
36
,
49
,
73

Qin Shi Huang
31

Quilter, Colin
246

R2 D2
53

rabbit
109–11
,
111
,
169

race
88

racism
57

rats
53
,
99–100
,
199–200

Ravel, Maurice
92

reading
123
,
148
,
149
,
153

recessive genes
220–24
,
234–5

recombination
220

Reformation
67

religion
17–18
,
48
,
58–60
,
66–8
see also
individual religions

Rembrandt
124
,
125

Renaissance
59
,
66

Reni, Guido
118
,
118

repression
87
,
241
,
252–3
,
281

reproduction
219–20
,
237
,
239–42

Republic of the United Netherlands
67

reversal, of hand preference
230

Revolution, French
14
,
66
,
72

Revolution, Industrial
66

rhesus macaques
201
,
228

Ricchieri, Ludovico
159–61

right (political)
72–76

right brain
146–7
,
182
,
187–8
,
195–6
,
230–32

right shift factor
223
,
234

ring finger
38
,
40

rituals
40
,
42
,
45–6
,
47
,
58–9
,
115

road deaths
see
accidents

Rolls-Royce
25

Romania
37

Rome, Romans
21
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
42
,
43–44
,
77
,
84
,
159
,
272

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
25

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
80

Rouvoet, André
42

Ruq’a
152

Russia
74
,
79
,
123
,
145
,
189
,
226–7

Salk, Lee
135

Samael
21

Sanskrit
18

Sarmiento, Maria Augustina
136

Saudi Arabia
25
,
26

scala naturae
116

schizophrenia
231
,
250
,
254

School of Fontainebleau
119–21
,
121

Scythians
158–9

Seed, Chris
89–91
,
95

selection procedures
95

sex, sexuality
23–4
,
49
,
62–4
,
239–42
,
242
,
252–3
,
272

sexes, separation of
58

sexual selection
240

shield theory
77–8
,
168

sides of the face
143–7

sinister
9
,
21