Handedness is more than laterality: Lessons from chimpanzees

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1288, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Marchant, Linda F ^a   Mcgrew, William C ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Behavior; Hominoid; Manual laterality; Methodology; Primates

Indexed keywords

APE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHIMPANZEE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; RESEARCH;

HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; HOMO SAPIENS; PAN; PAN PANISCUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84878846843     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12062     Document Type: Article

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