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No, it's because the side with the Broca area controls the rights side...
We've known this for decades, I don't know why so many new studies just ignore everything.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2043144/
Before spoken language there's hand gestures, and that prioritizes the right hand, because Broca's on the left.
If other hominids favored the right hand it means they were pretty far along the language path.
It's absolutely doesn't under any circumstances, have to do with how fucking long their arms and legs are. That's just correlation.
Thank you for the explanation, quite interesting to read!