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Why do cats wash themselves, while dogs don’t?

Richard Grimmer,

Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK

If 21st-century babies are weaned on a globalised diet that has only recently been available, what was used to wean babies in prehistoric times?

Ian, Naraa and baby Vaughan Allardyce,

London, UK

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