Comments on: LRRTM1: A possible gene for left-handedness

By: Maria Conte

Maria Conte — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:30:17 +0000

Reblogged this on Essere mancino.

By: Genetic Research on Left-handedness | Lefties, Lefty Tools & Gadgets

Genetic Research on Left-handedness | Lefties, Lefty Tools & Gadgets — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:44:40 +0000

[...] – Anthropology.net. A possible Gene for Left-handedness. Accessed October 28, [...]

By: Genetic Research that Relate to Left-handedness | Lefties, Lefty Tools & Gadgets

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:43:34 +0000

[...] – Anthropology.net. A possible Gene for Left-handedness. Accessed October 28, [...]

By: MC

MC — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:41:40 +0000

What I find interesting is any connection between this discovery and Julian Jaynes’s “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” where he postulated the absence of what we consider true consciousness (the “narrative I”) in our “sapient” progenitors. Everything accomplished through a directive voice instructing the individual what to do, how to feel. Essentially our ancestors were what we would describe as schizhophrenic. Upheaval of events more than 4 thousand years ago and the rise of written, metaphorical language helped superseded (but not replace) this directive voice with the narrative I. Essentially, our asymmetric brains are set up to be schizoid, only this higher functioning idempotent operand “I” protects modern sapient from a very uncomfortable realization – he is the sole creature divided from his world through himself. Could this explain our preoccupations dividing one between beautiful transcendent dream and an often ugly and nauseating immanence – our aspirations toward heavenly utopia and begrudged acceptance of our telluric dystopia? Does it explain why sober John Doe may be overheard quizzing himself aloud in the morning as to what his drunken counterpart did with his car keys last night, the same sorry individual he must rouse to travel X miles through a morning gridlock to a job he agrees is menticidal? Is posing an unvoiced question to yourself “normal” or merely a vestigial aspect of this underlying schizophrenia, which is an awful truth? Is the human problem in fact our proposal of fact secretly subverted by this insidious mark of opposition – “?”

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:25:39 +0000

Hi Kambiz
Kelly, already told you she is silly. don’t you get it? You must be right handed!

By: Looking Left (Handed) to Creativity « QuinnCreative

Looking Left (Handed) to Creativity « QuinnCreative — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:12:00 +0000

[...] made you left handed? It happened in the womb. LRRTM1 is the gene thought to be responsible, but there is even more involved. According to neurologist [...]

By: Kambiz

Kambiz — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:58:15 +0000

Kelly, you also type in all capitals which is very silly.

By: KELLY

KELLY — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:20:07 +0000

I AM A LEFTY I HOPE I DO NOT HAVE THAT GENE. I AM EXTREMELY CREATIVE AND SILLY. WHAT MAKES YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE THAT GENE. I CAN ALSO USE MY RIGHT HAND. I AM TOLD I AM VERY DIFFERENT WITH A CREATIVE MIND.

By: alan

alan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:31:02 +0000

This is the first gene associating left-handedness. Unfortunately this very gene may cause increased risk of schizophrenia.

By: Oklahoma! « blueollie

Oklahoma! « blueollie — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:33:33 +0000

[...] Anthropology.net: notes that human brains are less symmetrical than the brains of other primates, and notes that a candidate for the gene responsible for handiness (e. g., left handed, right handed)…. [...]