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Letter: Perhaps humans could be de-domesticated (2)

Published 11 April 2018

From Heather Brindley, Canberra, Australia

Human self-domestication made for a very interesting article. But perhaps the word “gracile” would be a better description of the relatively lighter build of domesticated species. The word “feminine” comes with a lot of human-specific cultural baggage.

Issue no. 3173 published 14 April 2018

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