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Letter: A tall tale

Published 25 January 2012

From Ditlev Petersen

The cartoon with the letter “Grounded chimps” in your end-of-year issue (24/31 December 2011, p 43) depicts apes sleeping on the ground, but I sincerely doubt that this progenitor of humans actually had a tail.

After all, neither Lucy, the 3-million-year-old hominid fossil, nor present day chimpanzees, have a tail.

Termestrup, Mørke, Denmark

Issue no. 2849 published 28 January 2012

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