New research suggests left-handed people may be more competitive than right-handers, offering clues to an evolutionary advantage.

We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...

Thanks to left-handers like Jimi Hendrix, Aristotle, and Marie Curie, most of us correlate the hand preference with either intellect or ingenuity. Research has consistently suggested that left-handed ...

Past research on left-handedness has indicated that it is more common in men than in women (Papadatou-Pastou et al., 2008). Similarly, a recent large-scale study found that in the U.K., 8.6% of women ...