Chimpanzee handedness revisited: 55 years since Finch (1941)

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 449-457

  Hopkins, William D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000968963     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03214548     Document Type: Article

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