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. 2022 Dec 1;11:e77875. doi: 10.7554/eLife.77875

Table 1. Hand preferences of anthropoid species as recovered by the tube task.

Bold numbers indicate significant results. Results marked with an asterisk (*) remain significant after Bonferroni correction.

Species N # Left (%) # Right (%) # Ambipreferent (%) MeanHI MeanAbsHI Species direction bias (HI), p value Species L/R/A distribution, p value nGenus Genus direction bias (HI), p value Genus L/R/A distribution, p value
Ateles fusciceps 46 20 (43.5) 22 (47.8) 4 (8.7) 0.063 0.798 0.618 0.288 87 0.759 0.031
Ateles geoffroyi 23 10 (43.5) 11 (47.8) 2 (8.7) 0.061 0.829 0.748 0.536
Ateles hybridus 18 13 (72.2) 5 (27.8) 0 –0.377 0.917 0.086 0.018
Cercocebus torquatus 31 13 (41.9) 11 (35.5) 7 (22.6) –0.029 0.665 0.832 0.836 31 0.832 0.836
Cercopithecus diana 20 7 (35) 10 (50) 3 (15) 0.178 0.755 0.339 0.836 45 0.572 0.222
Cercopithecus neglectus 25 14 (56) 7 (28) 4 (16) –0.258 0.621 0.061 0.140
Gorilla gorilla 76 17 (22.4) 41 (53.9) 18 (23.7) 0.248 0.541 <0.001* 0.007 76 <0.001* 0.007
Homo sapiens 127 12 (9.5) 111 (87.4) 4 (3.1) 0.761 0.943 <0.001* <0.001* 127 <0.001* <0.001*
Hylobates lar 36 17 (47.2) 16 (44.5) 3 (8.3) –0.011 0.614 0.924 0.182 58 0.612 0.125
Hylobates moloch 22 11 (50) 8 (36.4) 3 (13.6) –0.115 0.799 0.540 0.552
Leontopithecus chrysomelas 30 7 (23.3) 12 (40) 11 (36.7) 0.151 0.514 0.171 0.012 73 0.241 <0.001*
Leontopithecus chrysopygus 15 3 (20) 4 (26.7) 8 (53.3) 0.039 0.350 0.744 0.001*
Leontopithecus rosalia 28 10 (35.7) 8 (28.6) 10 (35.7) 0.022 0.502 0.850 0.033
Macaca fascicularis 20 8 (45) 10 (45) 2 (10) –0.036 0.684 0.835 0.233 102 0.692 0.863
Macaca nemestrina 29 9 (31) 11 (37.9) 9 (31) 0.035 0.527 0.768 0.750
Macaca silenus 35 14 (40) 9 (25.7) 12 (34.3) –0.051 0.467 0.596 0.328
Macaca sylvanus 24 12 (50) 10 (41.7) 2 (8.3) –0.025 0.670 0.873 0.129
Macaca tonkeana 14 5 (35.7) 3 (21.4) 6 (42.9) –0.057 0.543 0.753 0.291
Mandrillus sphinx 32 6 (18.8) 10 (31.2) 16 (50) 0.034 0.389 0.701 0.006 32 0.701 0.006
Nomascus gabriellae 10 5 (50) 2 (20) 3 (30) –0.173 0.618 0.465 0.436 36 0.539 0.805
Nomascus leucogenys 26 9 (34.6) 11 (42.3) 6 (23.1) –0.031 0.555 0.818 0.869
Pan paniscus 118 50 (42.4) 51 (43.2) 17 (14.4) 0.044 0.529 0.431 0.237 654 <0.001* <0.001*
Pan troglodytes 536 155 (28.9) 266 (49.6) 115 (21.5) 0.133 0.507 <0.001* <0.001*
Papio anubis 84 27 (32.1) 41 (48.8) 16 (19.1) 0.108 0.527 0.102 0.073 108 0.079 0.239
Papio hamadryas 24 6 (25) 7 (29.2) 11 (45.8) 0.066 0.408 0.533 0.082
Pithecia pithecia 7 5 (71.4) 2 (28.6) 0 –0.385 0.934 0.312 0.221 7 NA 0.221
Pongo sp. 47 27 (57.5) 9 (19.1) 11 (23.4) –0.225 0.487 0.006 0.012 47 0.006 0.012
Pygathrix cinerea 18 6 (33.3) 10 (55.6) 2 (11.1) 0.165 0.499 0.268 0.196 18 0.268 0.196
Rhinopithecus roxellana 24 17 (70.8) 7 (29.2) 0 –0.319 0.729 0.040 <0.001* 24 0.040 <0.001*
Saimiri sciureus 36 21 (58.4) 14 (38.9) 1 (2.7) –0.119 0.757 0.382 0.031 36 0.382 0.031
Sapajus apella 25 11 (44) 10 (40) 4 (16) –0.028 0.687 0.854 0.961 80 0.922 0.905
Sapajus flavius 21 10 (47.6) 7 (33.3) 4 (19) –0.130 0.769 0.495 0.755
Sapajus xanthosternos 34 14 (41.2) 15 (44.1) 5 (14.7) 0.089 0.677 0.492 0.906
Semnopithecus entellus 30 15 (50) 7 (23.4) 8 (26.6) –0.184 0.560 0.110 0.315 30 0.110 0.315
Symphalangus syndactylus 31 11 (35.5) 9 (29) 11 (35.5) –0.048 0.482 0.663 0.118 31 0.663 0.118
Theropithecus gelada 38 6 (15.8) 6 (15.8) 26 (68.4) 0.053 0.257 0.326 <0.001* 38 0.326 <0.001*
Trachypithecus auratus 8 5 (62.5) 3 (37.5) 0 –0.256 0.984 0.499 0.176 26 0.153 0.004
Trachypithecus hatinhensis 18 11 (61.1) 7 (38.9) 0 –0.248 0.817 0.219 0.023