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Letter: Clarification:

Published 30 May 1998

The article on the theory that stone hand axes were made for sexual display
(This Week, 9 May, p 16) should have pointed out that
the theory was developed jointly by London-based scientist Marek Kohn and Steven
Mithen of the University of Reading.

Issue no. 2136 published 30 May 1998

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