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This paper examines the relationship between parity, pregnancy outcome, and handedness in a sample of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). The relation between parity, maternal age and positive or negative pregnancy outcome was assessed from life history data for 536 chimpanzees housed at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. The incidences of negative pregnancy outcome (notably spontaneous...