Interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and beyond: The brain, story sharing, and social organization

Journal of Research Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Grobstein, Paul ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Distributed organization; Emergence; Hierarchy; Inquiry; Story

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349103766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1712851X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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