Across the long arc of mammalian evolution, the brain has quietly organized itself with a preference for one side over the other — and new research suggests this asymmetry is not uniquely human. Scientists studying canine behavior have found that male dogs favor their left paw at rates strikingly similar to left-handedness in human men, a discovery that places dogs and people on the same neurological continuum. Using a purpose-built assessment called the Doginburgh test, researchers have opened a window into the shared architecture of mammalian minds, reminding us that the animals we call comp
Male dogs show left-paw preference like left-handed men, new research finds
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