I do research in motor skill learning at Johns Hopkins University. I recently talked to the very prominent "handedness" researcher Bob Sainburg http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=Sain burg+RL+handedness&btnG=Search/ about this very subject.
He mentioned that monkeys tend to display handedness when throwing over-hand, but don't have hand preference when throwing under-hand. He said this may have something to do with the fact that monkeys fling poo almost exclusively with their under-hand throws.
This paper is also fairly on-topic.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00056-7
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I do research in motor skill learning at Johns Hopkins University. I recently talked to the very prominent "handedness" researcher Bob Sainburg http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=Sain burg+RL+handedness&btnG=Search/ about this very subject.
He mentioned that monkeys tend to display handedness when throwing over-hand, but don't have hand preference when throwing under-hand. He said this may have something to do with the fact that monkeys fling poo almost exclusively with their under-hand throws.
This paper is also fairly on-topic.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00056-7
Wonderful use of science knowledge...