Human Handedness: A Partial Cross-Fostering Study
- 28 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 192 (4242), 908-910
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1273577
Abstract
The hand preference of college students correlated significantly with the writing hand of their biological parents but not that of their stepparents. The results are consistent with a genetic theory of the origin of human handedness.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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