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AN account of what is being done in America in the broad field of experimental human biology to promote co-operative research has been given in a recent paper on "General Aspects of Interdisciplinary Research in Experimental Human Biology" by Dr. Josef Brozek and Prof. Ancel Keys, of the University of Minnesota (Science, 100, 507; 1944). This paper, apart from its specialized interest, is of wide importance in that it indicates some of the fundamental problems of the most effective organization of research effort everywhere, and it is a valuable contribution to constructive thought on the unity of knowledge. It will be recalled that the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society recently devoted a meeting to this subject, and to the means of redressing that progressive disintegration which, as Prof. T. W. Manson emphasized, is such a characteristic feature of our civilization.
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Interdepartmental Co-Operation in Research. Nature 155, 407–408 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155407a0
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