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Letter: You need a we

Published 20 December 2011

From David Prichard

The contents page line that promoted your look at fungal pathogens as a possible driver for the evolution of warm-bloodedness (3 December, p 1) needs correcting. It stated: “Us mammals are unusually hot for good reasons”. This is partly because we mammals get hot under the collar when we see bad grammar.

Bluff Point, Western Australia

Issue no. 2844 published 24 December 2011

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