Swinging from the Trees

Given the general return to traditional values and practices such as slavery, witch-hunts and leadership by large noisy apes, it should come as no surprise that the biology of the species is progressing in similar fashion. A knee-bone thought to have been efficientised out of the human anatomy appears to be staging a comeback. Monkeys use the fabella to increase their leverage, which may help explain its renewed popularity in the present age of statesmanship; as may the fact that the fabella, like other avatars of old-fashioned values, has no apparent function other than to cause pain and discomfort.