▨ hand
"there are similarities between the skills required for speech production (language) and those required for hand movement, specifically movement of the right hand
[..] As if to confirm the close connection between language and the body, especially pointing and grasping movements of the right hand, babies and young children can be seen to point while they babble, and the child ‘always points while naming and does not name without pointing" p. 111-3"language and grasp can be seen as expressions at the phenomenal level of a deeper lying drive in the left hemisphere: effective manipulation of the world
[...] Once the capacity for manipulation was established [... and] the power of abstraction was embedded there with the beginnings of a referential language, the preferential use of the right hand to carry out the literal manipulation of the environment would naturally have followed" p. 115