Apes show handedness
Contrary to earlier reports, apes show humanlike hand preferences when
manipulating objects. Chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas favored the
right hand and orangutans the left hand, a team led by psychologist
William Hopkins of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., found in a study
to appear in the
Journal of Human Evolution
.
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