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Phylogenetic meta-analysis implicates large brains and our unusual posture in human handedness
2025-06-20
Abstract excerpt
Humans exhibit a striking and near-universal population-level right-hand preference, an evolutionary singularity unmatched among primates. Despite its pervasiveness, the origins of this lateralisation remain poorly understood. Here, we combine phylogenetic comparative methods with meta-analysis to investigate manual lateralisation across 41 anthropoid species (n = 2,025), testing longstanding eco-evolutionary hypo...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0a2bb75a-d20d-5ae8-a4d4-7f1c04686c80
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.06.17.660131