More injuries in left‐footed individual lizards and Sphenodon
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- 1 June 2003
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Zoology
- Vol. 260 (2) , 129-144
Abstract
In lizards and Sphenodon, often the fourth toes of individuals with intact tails have more subdigital lamellae on the right than on the left side, and the opposite situation frequently occurs in individuals with injured tails. The difference between intact and injured individuals in morphological directional asymmetry was statistically significant (PHomo sapiens, and could explain increased proneness to accident and warfare mortality in left‐handed men, beyond the possible involvement of cultural factors.Keywords
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