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Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans

Left-handedness is a costly, sexually dimorphic trait found at low frequencies in all human populations. How the handedness polymorphism is maintained is unclear. The fighting hypothesis argues that left-handed men have a negative frequency-dependent advantage in violent intrasexual competition givi...

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Autores principales: Richardson, Thomas, Gilman, R. Tucker
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31659217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51975-3