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Letter: For the record

Published 14 March 2012

• The story about a fire at a Brazilian Antarctic base (3 March, p 5) should have said most bases use non-flammable building materials.

• Part way through our review of Mark Pagel’s book Wired for Culture (3 March, p 50) we misspelt his name. We also note that Pagel is an evolutionary biologist whose specialisations are not limited to evolution of language.

Issue no. 2856 published 17 March 2012

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