The Evolution of Human Handedness, Volume 1288
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (Band Nr. 1)
1. Auflage August 2013
252 Seiten, Softcover
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Handedness, or manual laterality of function, is thought to be
both universal and unique to humans, making it a highly derived
trait, based on an equally specialized neural substrate. By
contrast, in various non-human species, both living and extinct,
extent of lateralization varies. All known populations of
living human beings apparently favor the right hand, motorically,
culturally, and symbolically, thus right-handedness is
species-typical, as well as species-specific. This laterality of
function is correlated with asymmetry of structure, that is,
neural, skeletal and muscular, for example as manifest especially
in skilled movement, such as handwriting. Human brains are
lop-sided, and sagitally-paired organs (hand, foot, eye, ear, etc.)
are skewed in their use, usually biased to the right; explaining
this variation appears to require both cultural and environmental
causal variables. To tackle these questions and advance our
knowledge of this basic human trait requires genuinely
multi-disciplinary input by scholars willing to think
inter-disciplinarily. Thus, participants in this
Annals volume come from anthropology, archaeology, genetics,
neurosciences, palaeo-anthropology, primatology, psychology, and
psychiatry.
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William C. McGrew, Wulf Schiefenhövel, and Linda F.
Marchant
Comparative
1 Handedness is more than laterality: lessons from
chimpanzees
Linda F. Marchant and William C. McGrew
9 Laterality in the gestural communication of wild
chimpanzees
Catherine Hobaiter and Richard W. Byrne
17 Neuroanatomical asymmetries and handedness in chimpanzees
(Pan troglodytes): a case for continuity in the evolution of
hemispheric specialization
William D. Hopkins
Substrates
36 The protocadherin 11X/Y (PCDH11X/Y) gene pair as determinant
of cerebral asymmetry in modern Homo sapiens
Thomas H. Priddle and Timothy J. Crow
48 Multilocus genetic models of handedness closely resemble
single-locus models in explaining family data and are compatible
with genome-wide association studies
J.C. McManus, Angus Davison, and John A. L. Armour
59 Laterality and the evolution of the prefronto-cerebellar
system in anthropoids
Jeroen B. Smaers, James Steele, Charleen R. Case, and Katrin
Amunts
Human evolution
70 Primate laterality and the biology and evolution of human
handedness: a review and synthesis
W. Tecumseh Fitch and Stephanie N. Braccini
86 Skeletal evidence for variable patterns of handedness in
chimpanzees, human hunter-gatherers, and recent British
populations
Jay T. Stock, Meghan K. Shirley, Lauren A. Sarringhaus, Tom G.
Davies, and Colin N. Shaw
100 The fighting hypothesis in combat: how well does the
fighting hypothesis explain human left-handed minorities?
Ton G.G. Groothuis, I.C. McManus, Sara M. Schaafsma, and Reint
H. Geuze
110 The fighting hypothesis as an evolutionary explanation for
the handedness polymorphism in humans: where are we?
Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond
Modern Humans
114 The nature and nurture of human infant hand preference
Jacqueline Fagard
124 Laterality of handgrip strength: age- and physical
training-related changes in Lithuanian schoolchildren and
conscripts
Janina Tutkuviene and Wulf Schiefenhövel
135 Biased semantics for right and left in 50 Indo-European and
non-Indo-European languages
Wulf Schiefenhövel
Professor Dr. Wulf Schiefenhovel, Max-Planck-Society - Humanethology.
Professor Linda F. Merchant, Department of Anthropology, Miami University.