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  • Title: Baboons communicate with their right hand.
    Author: Meguerditchian A, Vauclair J.
    Journal: Behav Brain Res; 2006 Jul 15; 171(1):170-4. PubMed ID: 16621056.
    Abstract:
    Humans are mainly right-handed for many actions including gestures. This bias is strongly linked to a left cerebral hemispheric dominance for language functions. Whether similar lateralized systems for communicative behaviors are present in other animals is unclear. Here we report the first evidence of strong population-level right-handedness in 60 captive baboons for a species-specific communicative manual gesture. Our findings support the view that lateralization for language may have evolved from a gestural system of communication controlled by the left hemisphere.
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