WINNER OF THE AVENTIS SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE, beating Stephen Pinker's The Blank Slate! Previous winners include all the greats of the science world such as Stephen Jay Gould, Jared Diamond, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose and Steve Jones Also winner of the prestigious Wellcome Prize and winner of an IgNobel award for his study on scrotal asymmetry... 'Limpidly written, dryly witty and extraordinarily wide-reaching, this is surely the most inclusive and erudite popular account of asymmetry yet produced' Robert Macfarlane, Spectator 'Spanning disciplines from genetics to folklore, McManus's account of 'handedness' must be one of the most intellectually capricious science books this year' Scotland on Sunday 'Wonderful book...He has done a marvellous job of summarizing and integrating a wide range of findings from various disciplines addressing questions on the nature of right and left' William D. Hopkins, Nature 'A fascinating and immensely readable exploration of the whole topic' New Scientist 'A fascinating study of the origins of asymmetry in life, culture and myth' Frank Close, TLS
Chris McManus is Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at University College, London. He is the author of the leading textbook Psychology in Medicine and is the co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine. He is one of the world's foremost experts on handedness and lateralization.
A fascinating and immensely readable exploration of the whole
topic
*NEW SCIENTIST*
A scientific detective story, a brilliant cross between Edgar Allan
Poe and Gray's anatomy
*NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR*
Limpidly written, dryly witty and extraordinarily wide-reaching,
this is surely the most inclusive and erudite popular account of
asymmetry yet produced
*SPECTATOR*
A fascinating study of the origins of asymmetry in life, culture
and myth
*TLS*
Spanning disciplines from genetics to folklore, McManus's account
of 'handedness' must be one of the most intellectually capricious
science books this year
*SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY*
Wonderful book...He has done a marvellous job of summarising and
integrating a wide range of findings from various disciplines
addressing questions on the nature of right and left
*NATURE*
An excellent mix of hard science and engaging games and tricks, and
a treasury of anecdotes
*Margaret Drabble*
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