Section 1: Behavioral biases in animals. Insights into the evolution of laterality in insects -- Motor asymmetries in fish, amphibians and reptiles -- A review of performance asymmetries in hand skill in nonhuman primates with a special emphasis on chimpanzees -- Manual bias, behavior, and cognition in common marmosets and other primates -- Mother and offspring lateralized social behavior across mammalian species -- Section 2: Behavioral biases in humans. Speech lateralization and motor control -- Mother and offspring lateralised social interaction across animal species -- Handedness and cognitive ability: using meta-analysis to make sense of the data -- Atypical structural and functional motor networks in autism -- Lateralization of the expression of facial emotion in humans -- Split brain patients: visual biases for faces -- Section 3: Methodological considerations. Manual laterality and cognition through evolution: an archeological perspective -- Cognitive archeology, body cognition, and hand-tool interaction -- Evolution and development of handedness: an Evo-Devo approach -- Section 4: Cerebral lateralization and behavioral biases as a foundation for higher cognitive function. A comparative perspective on lateral biases and social behavior -- Sensorimotor lateralization scaffolds cognitive specialization.