what is the benefit of having a dominant hand/leg as compared to having equally skilled limbs?
In: Biology
Most animals don’t have the kind of dexterity we do. I think the more likely case is that as we developed enhanced dexterity and control, one hand was good enough and the mutation that allowed it happened to work out that way. If ambidexterity was a rare/complex mutation to that and/or it didn’t provide a significant advantage to breeding prospects, it wouldn’t develop species wide.
Evolution, despite the “survival of the fittest” line, is more of a race to the good enough.
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