‘Humans, tools and handedness’ James Steele* and Natalie Uomini# * AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK. Email: [email protected] # Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ. Email: [email protected] Published in: Stone Knapping: The Necessary Conditions for a Uniquely Hominin Behaviour (edited by Valentine Roux and Blandine Bril), pp. 217-239. 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