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Letter: For the record

Published 17 November 2010

• Our description of the Hampshire tree planning test (30 October, p 43) failed to make it clear that you can only move a number on or off the end of a branch of the tree, and cannot slide one over another.

• We said: “Each year, 75 million babies are born” (6 November, p 32). That is the increase in population; the number of babies born is around 130 million.

• The skinks whose sex-determination Ido Pen and colleagues studied (30 October, p 18) was Niveoscincus ocellatus, not N. greeni.

• The correct DOI for the paper in Biological Psychiatry we mention in the article “Sins of the fathers” (6 November, p 8) is 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.05.036.

Issue no. 2787 published 20 November 2010

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