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Conference Summary: Postcards from Seychelles

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Forty-eight speakers attending Lessons from the Local Group gave talks on a wide variety of topics over a period of 5 days to celebrate the careers of David Block and Bruce Elmegreen. In this short summary I highlight some of the lessons I learned when I wasn’t being distracted by the awesome beauty of our surroundings.

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Norman, M. (2015). Conference Summary: Postcards from Seychelles. In: Freeman, K., Elmegreen, B., Block, D., Woolway, M. (eds) Lessons from the Local Group. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10614-4_40

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