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Letter: Letters : Wrong primate

Published 12 October 1996

From Godric Wilkie

London

Presumably Kate Charlesworth, in “Life, the Universe and (almost) everything”
(31 August, p 45), intended to compare the galago’s brain size to that of a
marmoset.

A marmot is not a “higher primate”. It is, I understand, a rodent.

Issue no. 2051 published 12 October 1996

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