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Letter: Dead ringer

Published 10 September 2014

From Alan Walker

I noticed the image of an old friend accompanying your story on the decline of Neanderthals (23 August, p 10): the skull of an early Homo erectus that I helped excavate in 1984.

The caption read “40,000 years dead”, but that individual died about 1.5 million years ago. Might I suggest that you use a different stock image in future?
Moncure, North Carolina, US

Issue no. 2986 published 13 September 2014

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