Subject: 'I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous'
- the science of handedness of brains, bodies and molecules
Speaker: Chris McManus - C.V.
- Professor of Psychology and Director of Medical Education at UCL Medical School.

Why is your heart on the left of your body, and your liver on the right? Why is language processed on the left side of most people's brains, and why are most people right-handed and a small, but significant, proportion of the population left-handed? Why do shells spiral only in one direction, and why should we only use left-handed proteins and a DNA helix that always turn in the same direction? Why is the latin for left 'sinister'?

Professor Chris McManus, winner of the Aventis Book Prize 2003 and 1999 Wellcome Book Prize, will discuss the assymmetry that exists throughout nature, and particularly with respect to human nature!

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