Living in a physical world III. Getting up to speed

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Journal of Biosciences

• Publication date

  2005-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy

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  DOI 10.1007/BF02703667PMID 16052068
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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