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Can urbanization accentuate hand use in the foraging activities of primates?

Tejeshwar DhananjayaSayantan DasMonica HarpalaniMichael Alan HuffmanMewa Singh
Published in: American journal of biological anthropology (2022)
The adaptive pressures of urbanization, like the manual constraints of extracting packaged foods and perhaps, the need for visual-haptic exploration of novel objects seem to accentuate hand use in synanthropic groups of primates. Additional research should ascertain similar patterns in other primates and determine specific aspects of urbanization that modulate the observed trend.
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