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Humans have a very strong bias toward right-handedness, with approximately 85-90% having right as their dominant hand. Among studies of nonhuman primates, James Welles's 1976 study of captive chimpanzees and catarrhine monkeys reported more right-handed individuals than left-handed ones, but Jane Goodall's 1963 study of wild chimpanzees did not find a tendency toward right-handedness. It's important to note, however, that captive animals spend significantly more time with humans than wild animals do, and therefore