Raphaël Dubois knew why we walk anticlockwise | Letters

Readers respond to an report on experiments that have shown a left-turn bias among humansIt is not quite true to say that no one knows why people prefer to turn left and walk anticlockwise (Report, 10 June). Research by the French professor of physiology Raphaël Dubois in the 19th century revealed the existence of a phenomenon in the natural world that he called the “antikinetic gyratory movement”, caused by the rotation of the Earth on its axis.During the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris...