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Letter: Letters : Chimp criterion

Published 28 February 1998

From Ron Stott

Kooyong, Victoria, Australia

If the criterion for distinguishing humans from chimpanzees is the ability to
understand Bessel functions
(Editorial, 7 February, p 3), class me as a
chimpanzee.

Issue no. 2123 published 28 February 1998

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