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Animals have favored their right side for over half a billion years, according to fossils of a limbless, leech-like creature

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/science/fossils-earliest-handedness-righties.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wlA.OiQb.c0Mldh5O1k8z&user_id=6951741c1ba9c9eb2004a6d1

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  • Daryl76679@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And yet we still don’t know why right. There could be some benefit or it could be like amino acids where it was up to chance and there was never any pressure for it to change

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