{
  "id": 313108,
  "title": "Why are we (almost all) right‑handed? Two million years of evolutionary mystery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/08/why-are-we-almost-all-right-handed-two-million-years-of-evolutionary",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-08T03:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais English",
    "slug": "el-pais-english",
    "url": "https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-08-08/why-are-we-almost-all-righthanded-two-million-years-of-evolutionary-mystery.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "There is not a single cause but several interwoven ones. The hypothesis with the most weight points to the development of our brain and the origin of language: gestures",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}