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A Comparative Assessment of Hand Preference in Captive Red Howler Monkeys, Alouatta seniculus and Yellow-Breasted Capuchin Monkeys, Sapajus xanthosternos

There are two major theories that attempt to explain hand preference in non-human primates–the ‘task complexity’ theory and the ‘postural origins’ theory. In the present study, we proposed a third hypothesis to explain the evolutionary origin of hand preference in non-human primates, stating that it...

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Autores principales: Sfar, Nasibah, Mangalam, Madhur, Kaumanns, Werner, Singh, Mewa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25271639
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107838