Wild chimpanzees show population-level handedness for tool use

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 35, 2005, Pages 12634-12638

  Lonsdorf, Elizabeth V ^a,b   Hopkins, William D ^c,d  

^a Lincoln Park Zoo ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemisphere specialization; Laterality; Primates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE; HAND FUNCTION; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HERITABILITY; ISOPTERA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUT; POPULATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALIA; ISOPTERA; PAN (APE); PRIMATES;

EID: 24644454258     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0505806102     Document Type: Article

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