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Is the fact that most people are right handed a result of biology

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Is the fact that most people are right handed a result of biology or culture? Or both?
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>>7793316
Yes
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>>7793316
your main hand is the opposite of the testicle that hangs low.
This allows optimal scratching and sniffing, it's an evolutionary advantage.
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Not proven, but a popular hypothesis:

There is a combat advantage to being left-handed. If you are left-handed, most of your opponents will be right-handed, and you will be used to how they move. But most of your opponents' opponents will also be right-handed, so they WON'T be used to how you move. This is most commonly observed today in sports.

This would create a kind of equilibrium, where the advantage is bigger the rarer it is, which in turn makes it more common, etc. If left-handedness also comes along with certain disadvantages (and there is evidence it does, healthwise), then you end up with stable minority of left-handers.
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>>7793353
Being left handed myself I could say that is spot on. Though one person is far from a proof
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>>7793353
>There is a combat advantage to being left-handed
Southpaw boxer here. Can confirm there is a huge advantage.
I am still curious as to why left handedness has remained so stable at 7-10% of the population.
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>>7793353
Yes this makes sense and this kind of equilibrium has been observed in nature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy
There was a good video about this but I can't find it on YouTube.
However, we are not yet sure that being left handed has anything to do with genes.
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>>7793324
Kek
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what about me ,
im righ handed, but left legged
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>>7795305
You are just a retard
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