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Nature 437, 318 (15 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437318d; Published online 14 September 2005

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Harry Potter and the prisoner of presumption

Antony N. Dodd1, Carlos T. Hotta1 & Michael J. Gardner1

  1. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK

Jeffrey Craig and colleagues, in Correspondence ("Harry Potter and the recessive allele" Nature 436, 776; 2005), recommend the use of analogies as tools for introducing young people to scientific concepts. Taking their example from J.