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Why does handedness exist?

Handedness - the idea that one hand is better able to perform certain
tasks than the other - is, if not exclusively a human trait, then certainly a
mostly human one.
Why are so few people left-handed?
But exactly why humans favor different hands, or why most people
tend to be right-handed, remains mysterious. The most common answer is
that handedness is determined by the structure of our brains, which are
divided into two hemispheres. Our brains are far more specialized than those
of other animals, with different regions of the brain responsible for different
specific tasks.
Two of the most energy-intensive human activities are language and
the use of our fine motor skills - in other words, the use of our hands. One
theory suggests that it's more efficient for the brain to cluster control of
these two major tasks in one hemisphere rather than having it spread
throughout the brain. Since the vast majority of people have their language
functions centered in the left hemisphere, it follows that most people's fine
motor skills would be controlled by the left hemisphere too. Each hemisphere
generally controls the opposite side of the body, so the end result is that
most people are right-handed.
However, the opposite does not hold true - being left-handed does not
mean the language centers are located in the right hemisphere, which is
fairly rare. Certainly, lefties are more likely than righties to have their right
hemisphere responsible for language, but it's still not a common
arrangement.
But why are most people right-handed?
In the January 1, 2002 issue of Discover Magazine, Jocelyn Selim
describes a particularly spectacular theory:

In most primates and other animals, the hemispheres of the brain

divide the processing of tasks somewhat equally. But in humans, the
hemispheres tend to specialize: Nearly all righties process language in the
left side of the brain, while many lefties process language on the right.

Because handedness and language both seemed uniquely human traits,

biologists long assumed that they were closely linked.

One Oxford neurobiologist went so far as to argue that right-handedness

could be traced back 200,000 years to a single mutation-a sort of genetic Big
Bang that created hemispheric specialization, language, and higher cognitive
functioning in one go. Right-