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Letter: Monkey see…

Published 12 November 2008

From Quentin Macilray

If tools maketh the monkey, by extending the self and thus creating an awareness of self (11 October, p 42), then surely by extension the same would be true of clothing and self-adornment, another crucial phase in human development. Could this be the next stage in Atsushi Iriki’s investigation: macaques in lipstick?

Limassol, Cyprus

Issue no. 2682 published 15 November 2008

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