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15101415

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-4-22
pubmed:abstractText
Although there are quite important geographical variations in the frequency of left-handers around the world, nothing is known about its temporal evolution. During the upper Palaeolithic (ca. 35,000-10,000 YBP), humans painted 'negative hands' by blowing pigments with a tube onto one hand applied on the rock in caves in Western Europe, by blowing pigments on their own hand through a tube held in the other hand. The frequency of left-handers prevailing during this period could thus be assessed. For comparison, the handedness of French university students has been observed for the same task. No difference was detected between the two proportions of left-handers, separated by more than 10,000 years. Implications for the evolution of the polymorphism of handedness are discussed.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0962-8452
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
271 Suppl 3
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S43-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Handedness frequency over more than ten thousand years.
pubmed:affiliation
Génétique et Environnement, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR CNRS 5554), Université Montpellier II-CC 065, Place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France. faurie@isem.univ-montp2.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study