Family size, miscarriage-proneness, and handedness: Tests of hypotheses of the developmental instability theory of handedness

Laterality

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-120

  McKeever, Walter F ^a   Cerone, Louis J ^a   Suter, Patsy J ^a   Wu, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 0034119115     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713754367     Document Type: Article

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