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  1. We have bits and pieces of such an account: Droz-Mendelzweig (2008), Rees (2006, 2010, forthcoming), Rubin (2009).

  2. The French version, Que Faire de Notre Cerveau, was published in 2004.

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Langlitz, N. Cultural brains and neural histories. BioSocieties 6, 262–275 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2011.7

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