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Why aren’t humans covered in hair like other primates are?

Charles Joynson,

Rayleigh, Essex, UK

How did Roman road builders know which way to go? If they were a few degrees out setting off from, say, Chichester, they could have ended up in what is now Slough, not London.

Derek Peters,

Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, UK

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