Why aren’t we ambidextrous, do other animals have a dominant hand/paw?

Question

Why aren’t we ambidextrous, do other animals have a dominant hand/paw?

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Answer 1

It’s beneficial to specialize using one hand for each task. Training both requires many times the expended effort and gains nothing (unless you lose a hand which is clearly unlikely from an evolutionary standpoint as losing a hand usually meant dying).