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Alison Jolly. HANDS The primate hand , with fingernails and divergent thumb , originally evolved as an adaptation to arboreal locomotion . Elliot Smith ( 1927 ) saw that this was preadaptation for higher primate intelligence . Creatures ...
Alison Jolly. HANDS The primate hand , with fingernails and divergent thumb , originally evolved as an adaptation to arboreal locomotion . Elliot Smith ( 1927 ) saw that this was preadaptation for higher primate intelligence . Creatures ...
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... hand is usually the side that has the centers of speech . The dominant hand is not " better " in a simple sense than the other . Usually , there is division of labor between the two . In bimanual tasks , one hand holds or steadies an ...
... hand is usually the side that has the centers of speech . The dominant hand is not " better " in a simple sense than the other . Usually , there is division of labor between the two . In bimanual tasks , one hand holds or steadies an ...
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... hand , stand on it , and then bring the other hand to their mouths . It seems incredible that an adult primate should not realize which hand has the raisin , but this is not a fair statement of the problem . What the lemur does know is ...
... hand , stand on it , and then bring the other hand to their mouths . It seems incredible that an adult primate should not realize which hand has the raisin , but this is not a fair statement of the problem . What the lemur does know is ...
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ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES | 34 |
FOOD AND FEEDING | 45 |
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