what is the benefit of having a dominant hand/leg as compared to having equally skilled limbs?
In: Biology
I’m ambidextrous and I never think about which hand I use. For examle, when I assist surgeries, I chose whichever is more convenient for the head surgeon. It doesn’t matter in the slightest which instrument I hold in which hand.
It also doesn’t matter the slightest bit which hand I use for shooting a bow, for example.
But since we had to choose one hand to learn to write with at school (I chose right because most people were right-handed and I wanted to fit in), I write faster with my right hand. It’s equally readable, though left may be a little more beautiful because I write slower with left. But at the end of the day, my right hand writes mich more efficiently because it’s faster.
So I guess when you learn a new skill it matters what hand you use to learn this skill, especially when it comes to how fast you can perform this skill. And I think evolutionary speaking/in nature, speed is incredibly important, for example in hunting.
Theoretically speaking it should take more time to learn a new skill with both hands, but I’ve personally never experienced this (that I know of).
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