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From: bob@vaxwaller.UUCP (Bob Palin)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Handedness is where the heart is
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 16:16:05 EST
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> > > > >The heart is on the left side of the body.  I had heard that in swordfighting
> > > > 
> > > > The heart is NOT on the left side of the body...
> > > > ... (the left ventricle does most of the pumping)
> > > > -- Mike Moroney
> > > 
> > > So a wound on the left side is still more damaging, and still causes quick
> > > evolution.
> > 
> > If you are a bronze age warrior and someone punctures your heart.  You die.
> > Left side, right side, top or bottom, it makes no difference at all.
> 
> It is probably easier to hit my heart on the side, by sticking your sword
> through my ribs than trying to bore a hole in my sternum and hit it straight
> on.
> 
Oh come on !  are you people really serious ?  I have extreme doubts as to 
the evolutionary effects of sword fighting,  the majority of bronze age or
any other age people probably never had a sword fight or even got near a
sword - that's like saying we all get into gun fights

Bob Palin - zehntel!varian!bob