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The ASB I could think of would be all men lose their right hand and all women disappear.

The non ASB, I have no clue. To quote Lady Gaga, you're born that way.
 
How is this an interesting enough scenario to warrant a TL?

Maybe he was referring to my innovation through masturbation suggestion? Which in both instances, we'd be joking.

To be wholly frank and serious, you are just born the way you are. It's like being born gay or straight. You're either a right handed person, which most are, or left handed, which are a significant minority, or perhaps you are even ambidextrous, which is a small minority.
I don't know why that is, but it is what it is. Evolution just made it that way.

This talks about it. I didn't read it, but I know from the summary it answers the possibility of why people are right handed mostly:
http://io9.com/5840005/why-are-most-people-right+handed

In a world where the opposite were true, I don't know how much effect it'd really have.
 
I've heard that at one time in human history (or maybe "humanoid" history) it was about 50/50 between lefties and righties. What happened? Nobody knows, but it is safe to assume it was very very ominous.....

In a world where it was switched and righties are the minority:
-Scissors and those desks with chairs built in would be backwards. Righties would whine about it alot in school

-There would be no "Ted Williams chair" in Fenway Park because he would be a righty and that homerun would've landed somewhere on Landsdowne street.

I'm not sure what else. Maybe the Byzantine empire would have survived?

EDIT: At the risk of contributing something useful, http://www.livescience.com/19968-study-reveals-lefties-rare.html

Seems like the shift to right domination was far from inevitable, but the shift towards one or the other being dominant was inevitable.
 
What? Is this trolling?
I think you overreacted a little. I don't think this is an troll WI at all. For one it isn't offencive at all and for another it isn't spamming. It's just an weird little, casual WI from what I can tell.

Now to answere the quistion, I don't really think their would be much of an difference to history. Now to how everything is like that is the intresing part. Everything would be backwards. Instead of right we might use left. Like "seems like you didn't wake up on the left side of the bed":)D) or something like that. Another is "you are left, I was over reacting":)D). It'll couse a lot of fun for our terms.
 

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Can handedness be inherited ? If founder effect could be applied on handedness, we could have some island/tribe/nation that majority left-handed.
 
Doesn't this go earlier than humans? I'm sure I've heard the majority of animals are right handed too.
 
Doesn't this go earlier than humans? I'm sure I've heard the majority of animals are right handed too.
Parrots are mostly left-footed. I don't know whether enough other groups of birds have been studied in sufficient detail for us to be able to say whether this is actually a mammals/birds division.
 
With a POD this early, human history would be completely unrecognizable. For instance, agriculture could have started thousands of years earlier or later than it did.
 
Left-handers have an advantage in any face-to-face physical confrontation (notably boxing, but also tennis, football etc.), substantially if not completely due the advantage of surprise. Advantages to society generally are also probable due to differences of perspective. The former is only plausible so long as they are few in number, however, and it's imaginable that the latter diminishes also as the proportion of left handers rises.

Racism is on the way out but it appears that Leftism is on the rise. In an article on a widely-reported study, The Independent provides a helpful list of "Left-Handed Leaders and Criminals. ABC News meanwhile wondered what we're for at all: "Statistics show left-handed people are more likely to be schizophrenic, alcoholic, delinquent, dyslexic, and have Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, as well as mental disabilities. They're also more likely to die young and get into accidents. So if evolutionary theory dictates survival of the fittest, why do lefties still exist?"

Schizophrenia, alcoholism and delinquency are one thing, but ulcerative colitis? That really hurts.
 
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