Sinister strategies succeed at the cricket World Cup

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2004, Pages

  Brooks, Robert ^a   Bussière, Luc F ^a   Jennions, Michael D ^b   Hunt, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cricket; Frequency dependence; Handedness; Polymorphism; Sport

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HANDEDNESS; POLYMORPHISM; SPORT;

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPORT;

EID: 10744229466     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0100     Document Type: Article

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