Why are we not ambidextrous?

Question

Wouldn't it be nice to have equal dexterity in both hands and legs?

Answer 1

Like someone said, some are.

It's just because most of us tend to make more use of one of our sides, which leads us to be good with that side, therefore making it more easy to perform tasks with, finally leaving us to our one sided kind of living

But if you want to, you can become ambidextrous, is just a matter of wanting to spend the time training yourself

Answer 2

God did it.

Answer 3

Some people are.

Answer 4

What do you mean by that? A lot of people are ambidextrous.

Answer 5

By favouring only one side of the body, it allowed for greater strength on that side, say, for throwing spears, rocks etc for hunting. Although some people can use both sides equally well, the best results are achieved when one arm is exercised continuously, rather than trying to do well with both arms. It leads to specialisation, and left or right-handedness. Since there is a genetic component to the trait, it is favoured over ambidexterity. Being able to throw a spear further was of more benefit to our ancestors than writing with either hand.

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Answer 6

Yes, it would be nice if we could use both sides of our bodies equally well and be ambidextrous. However, the problem we see is the brain. Your brain is actually two separate interconnected halves and biologically speaking, one side or the other becomes dominant. People who are truly ambidextrous have both sides of the brain being equally dominant. So, the reason is the biology of the brain. Most people are "right" handed, about 9 out of 10, and about 1 out of 10 being "left" handed. In the past, being left handed was persecuted and left handed people were discriminated against because of ignorance and stupidity, just as races are discriminated in some cultures. All that "handedness" means is that you have a brain which can manipulate one side of your body better than the other and there is nothing WRONG with this. Early in my school years, in an effort to disspell this prejudice, a science class I had was given a task, learn to write with the "other" hand and keep a log of how the experiment went, on a daily basis.The point was to learn observation in scientific experiments. We had to do our homework with the non-dominant hand and observe ourselves in this effort of learning something new, in a scientific manner. We were conducting research just like any other scientist does. For me, I was able to print block letters in a matter of days, but cursive took me months for my writing to become legible to be read by others. The point IS, that I learned to write in cursive with my non-dominant hand. My writing with my non-dominant hand never got as good as my dominant hand, but it WAS completely legible after only a few months of concentrated effort, and if I continued to practice using my non-dominant hand, I think I could have gotten equally good with either hand. Now, over 45 years later, I can STILL write cursive with my non-dominant hand, though it isn't exactly the neatest cursive. What do you think people do who break an arm, their dominant arm, to get by in things that involve writing or other manual tasks?

Edit: Just out of curiosity, why don't you try this experiment for yourself? Try to use your non-dominant hand to do the daily things you DO, like use a fork and knife at dinner or comb your hair? Concentrate. Try to learn how to use your non-dominant hand and see what kind of effort it involves. You will find that your brain is a wonderful thing, that it CAN learn to do things which are not coming from the dominant side. I think you will be amazed at what you can DO if you put your mind to the task...

Answer 7

Im both right handed and left.. I can write just aswell with my left as I can my right and the same with doing things.