"Evolutionary" Stable Strategy of Handedness in Major League Baseball

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 164-169

  Goldstein, Stephen R ^a   Young, Charlotte A ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0242531482     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.110.2.164     Document Type: Article

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