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Letter: Too much ear wax?

Published 21 January 2015

We’ve docked 10 points from ourselves; we should have said “the ability to hear sounds of a pitch higher than any known animal can make”, which is a quality of the greater wax moth, but not Neanderthals.

Issue no. 3005 published 24 January 2015

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