Does Bipedality Predict the Group-Level Manual Laterality in Mammals?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Giljov, Andrey ^a   Karenina, Karina ^a   Malashichev, Yegor ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETTONGIA PENICILLATA; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; KANGAROO; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; POTOROIDAE;

ANIMALIA; BETTONGIA; BETTONGIA PENICILLATA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84871204170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051583     Document Type: Article

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