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Science 12 December 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5908, p. 1636
DOI: 10.1126/science.1162117
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Emerging Nature of Nurture

Mriganka Sur

The Fundamentals of Brain Development
Integrating Nature and Nurture
by Joan Stiles
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 433 pp. $49.95, £32.95, €37.50. ISBN 9780674026742.
Stiles draws on the findings of the past two decades to provide an inclusive and accessible account of the complexities and dynamism of brain development.
The reviewer is at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: msur{at}mit.edu

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