Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference (opens in new tab)

Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates often have strong biases, and chimpanzees, gorillas, and a few other species lean slightly to the right or left as groups, but not nearly as much as humans. — Read the rest The post Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference appeared first on Boing Boing.

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