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The Physiology of Truth

Neuroscience and Human Knowledge

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$30.00 • £24.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674032606

Publication Date: 03/31/2009

* Academic Trade

336 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

39 halftones, 28 line illustrations

Belknap Press

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Jean-Pierre Changeux, author of the classic Neuronal Man, is Director of the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, Professor in the Collège de France, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Awards & Accolades

  • 2004 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, Rockefeller University
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