The Puzzle of Left-Handedness (43 page)
Wada, Juhn Atsushi
186–7
Wada test
186–7
Wageia-Kavirondo
33
Wagenaar, Willem Albert
119
,
122
Wagner, Richard
106
,
Wassersug, Richard
200
Wernicke, Carl
183
Wernicke’s area
182
Wharram Percy
86
Wile, Ira S.
87
Willis, Circle of
161
Wiseman, Joseph
54
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
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150–7
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215
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263–4
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267–76
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281
X-rays
79
Yemen, Yemeni
25–6
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26
,
148
see also
Arabia Felix
Zangwill, Oliver
184
Zumbohm, Gaspar
153–4
Table of Contents
3 Opposites and Contradictions
7 The True Nature of Left and Right
8 Strange Creatures in the Uncanny Valley
12 The Polymorphism of One-sidedness
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
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
23 The Morbid Views of Abram Blau
27 Other Asymmetries and Preferences
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
