Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — Length of Arms and Legs. [ARTICLE]

Length of Arms and Legs.

According to many measurements made at the Anthropological laboratory in London, the right arm in human beings is in a majority of cases longer than the left arm, while, on the contrary, the left leg is longer- than the right leg. Sometimes, however, the relative proportions are exactly reversed but seldom does perfect equality exist between the two sides. The tendency of the right arm to “xceed the left arm in strength is son “times greater In men than in women while equality of strength In the two r rms occurs almost twice as frequently with women as with men.