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Letter: Defining deerness

Published 3 March 2001

From Thomas Delacour

Nick Pinder writes that a Darwinian biologist might say that
being hunted by dogs is an essential part of being a deer
(20 January, p 49). In considering
human evolution over the millennia, should people believe that to be taxed,
robbed, raped, tortured or killed is an essential part of being a human?

Wadebridge, Cornwall

Issue no. 2280 published 3 March 2001

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