A comment to Huttonian turned out to be a come on for the World Science e-letter-certainly unsolicited spam but sounds intriguing enough to pass on to bloggees; it is not selling digital hearing aids or new kitchens so that can't be all bad. I am personally passing on the invitation with some reluctance as I am interested in the possibilty of monkeys commenting on the blog. Indeed perhaps some already do but have cleverly concealed their non human identities? Anyhow Apes, chimps etc are most welcome.
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