Yerkes researchers discover baisis for determining handedness in chimpanzees
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...suring homochirality - a prevalence of one type of handedness over another - would be absolute proof of life," said Mathies, professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley and Skelley's research advisor. "We've shown on Earth, in the most Mars-like environment available, that this instrument is a thousand times better a...Lefties have the advantage in adversarial situations
...sons alike, has evaded explanation. Persistence of handedness in snails is most often associated with a mating advantage. In this case, snails mate most effectively with snails whose shells coil in the same direction. The overwhelming majority of snail species are right-handed -- their shells coil clockwise. Di...Left-right wiring determined by neural communication in the embryonic worm
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