Grip preference, dermatoglyphics, and hand use in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-62

  Hopkins, William D ^a,b   Russell, Jamie L ^a   Hostetter, Autumn ^a   Pilcher, Dawn ^a   Dahl, Jeremy F ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Dermatoglyphics; Handedness; Laterality

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HANDEDNESS; INDEX FINGER; NONHUMAN; THUMB;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; DERMATOGLYPHICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 24044455712     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20093     Document Type: Article

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