On the origins of human handedness and language: A comparative review of hand preferences for bimanual coordinated actions and gestural communication in …

A Meguerditchian, J Vauclair… - Developmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Within the evolutionary framework about the origin of human handedness and hemispheric
specialization for language, the question of expression of population‐level manual biases in …

[LIVRE][B] Darwin's unfinished symphony: How culture made the human mind

KN Laland - 2017 - degruyter.com
Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

More than 500,000 years of right-handedness in Europe

DW Frayer, M Lozano… - … : Asymmetries of Body …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Considerable research supports the high frequency of right-handedness in living Homo
sapiens, with worldwide rates of approximately nine right-for every one left-hander. Right …

Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

TJH Morgan, NT Uomini, LE Rendell… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Hominin reliance on Oldowan stone tools—which appear from 2.5 mya and are believed to
have been socially transmitted—has been hypothesized to have led to the evolution of …

[LIVRE][B] The rise of Homo sapiens: The evolution of modern thinking

FL Coolidge, TG Wynn - 2018 - books.google.com
The Rise of Homo sapiens provides an unrivalled interdisciplinary introduction to the subject
of hominin cognitive evolution that is appropriate for general audiences and students in …

The cognitive bases of human tool use

K Vaesen - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2012 - cambridge.org
This article has two goals. The first is to assess, in the face of accruing reports on the
ingenuity of great ape tool use, whether and in what sense human tool use still evidences …

[LIVRE][B] Human evolution: A pelican introduction

R Dunbar - 2014 - books.google.com
What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we
survive, and other human species fail? The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the …

[LIVRE][B] From hand to handle: the first industrial revolution

L Barham - 2013 - books.google.com
Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years
to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago …

Common variants in left/right asymmetry genes and pathways are associated with relative hand skill

WM Brandler, AP Morris, DM Evans, TS Scerri… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Humans display structural and functional asymmetries in brain organization, strikingly with
respect to language and handedness. The molecular basis of these asymmetries is …

Shared brain lateralization patterns in language and Acheulean stone tool production: a functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound study

NT Uomini, GF Meyer - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background The popular theory that complex tool-making and language co-evolved in the
human lineage rests on the hypothesis that both skills share underlying brain processes and …