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Letter: Call of nature

Published 24 August 2011

From Ed Jarzembowski, Maidstone Museum

Steve Wilson’s comment on the prehistoric brain pondering life, the universe and everything suggests what I always suspected: all of us would be better off going out to do natural history, it’s what brains evolved for (21 May, p 24).

Must go. I’m meeting some guys at my local watering hole.

Maidstone, Kent, UK

Issue no. 2827 published 27 August 2011

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