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Sinister strategies succeed at the cricket World Cup

Date

Authors

Brooks, Rob

Bussiere, Luc

Jennions, Michael

Hunt, John E

Publisher

Royal Society of London

Abstract

Left-handers occur at unexpectedly high frequencies at top levels of many interactive sports. This may occur either because left-handed contestants are innately superior or because they enjoy a negatively frequency-dependent strategic advantage when rare

Keywords

Keywords: frequency dependence; handedness; polymorphism; sport; article; athlete; comparative study; controlled study; human; human experiment; left handedness; male; priority journal; right handedness; sport; Functional Laterality; Humans; Selection (Genetics); S Cricket; Frequency dependence; Handedness; Polymorphism; Sport

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/88656

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1098/rsbl.2003.0100

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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