The uniquely human capacity to throw evolved from a non-throwing primate: An evolutionary dissociation between action and perception

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 360-365

  Wood, Justin N ^a   Glynn, David D ^a   Hauser, Marc D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action perception; Action production; Phylogeny; Throwing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANCESTRY; COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; KINEMATICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RHESUS MONKEY; ROTATION; ANIMAL; ARM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; MACACA; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; ARM; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIOMECHANICS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTION; ROTATION;

EID: 35248876233     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0107     Document Type: Article

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