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Turtles nearly all the way down (and a few elephants too)

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By Marc Abrahams

11 January 2023

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Josie Ford

Down with turtles

The fabled dominance of the hare by the tortoise has an underground counterpart of sorts in a look at turtles and elephants in times gone by. The elephants came out on top in a 2014 study called . But turtles hog all the attention in a new report called .

The two works serve as reminders that some old conjectures and beliefs really…

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