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unity in the wild variety of nature, or just variety?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

i. c. mcmanus
i. c. mcmanus
Affiliation:
department of psychology, university college london, london, wc1e 6bt, united kingdomi.mcmanus@ucl.ac.uk http://www.chime.ucl,.ac.uk/~rmhiicm
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Abstract

although there are some common underlying mechanisms for many nonhuman behavioural asymmetries, the evidence at present is not compelling for commonalities in cerebral organisation across vertebrates. phylogenetic analysis of detour behaviour in fish suggests that more closely related species are not particularly similar in the direction of turning; contingency and demands of ecological niches may better explain such asymmetries.

Type
open peer commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 606 - 608
Copyright
2005 cambridge university press

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