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Part XI - Speculations about future directions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2017

Brian Hopkins
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Lancaster University
Elena Geangu
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Sally Linkenauger
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Acknowledgments

It is a pleasure to thank Aarthi Padmanabhan for valuable feedback on this entry.

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