Parental and perinatal factors influencing the development of handedness in captive chimpanzees

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 428-435

  Hopkins, William D ^b   Wesley, Michael J ^b   Russell, Jamie L ^a   Schapiro, Steven J ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Handedness; Laterality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CHIMPANZEE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HANDEDNESS; HEREDITY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL CARE; PROGENY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BIRTH ORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 33748542248     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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