ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    Biocracy and Democracy: Science, Ethics, and the Law
    Lynton Keith Caldwell 137

    Commentaries

    Comments on "Biocracy and Democracy" by Lynton K. Caldwell
    Robert H. Blank 150

    Biocracy, Biology, or Bioideology?
    Stuart C. Gilman 153

    On the Domestication of Eagles: Designer Genes as Kentucky-Fried Dysgenics
    Glendon Schubert 155

    A Response to Professor Caldwell: A Perspective from the Law
    Stephen L. Wasby 156

    Author's Response

    Lynton Keith Caldwell 159

    ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    The Concept of Evolution and Early State Formation
    Gebhard Geiger 163

    Commentaries

    The Geiger Encounter and the Evolutionary Origin of the State
    Kenneth E. Boulding 172

    Dynamical "Evolutionary" Theories for Political Science
    Michael R. Rose 175

    Author's Response

    Hierarchical Differentiation versus Adaptive Change: A Noospheric Encounter in Political Anthropology
    Gebhard Geiger 178

    FURTHER COMMENTARY

    Author's Response: The Synergism Hypothesis
    Peter A. Corning 182

    RECENT ARTICLES AND PAPERS 188

    BOOK REVIEWS

    Redefining Human Life: Reproductive Technologies and Social Policy (Robert H. Blank)
    Précis 190
    Philip L. Bereano and Michael Gilbert 190
    Clifford Grobstein 192
    Ruth Hubbard 194
    J. Robert Nelson 197

    Courts and Modern Medicine (Anthony Champagne and Rosemary N. Dawes)
    Précis 198
    William Lasser 198
    T. Kenneth Moran 199
    Susette M. Talarico 200
    Sarah Trafton 202

    Politik und Biologie: Beitrage zur Life-Sciences-Orientierung der Sozialwissenschaften (Heiner Flohr and Wolfgang Tonnesmann, eds.)
    Précis 204
    Wolfgang Lipp 205
    Frans B.M. de Waal 206
    Jan Wind 207

    Ever-Expanding Horizons: The Dual Informational Sources of Human Evolution (Carl P. Swanson)
    Précis 211
    Albert B. Harper 212
    Joel Kassiola 214
    George Kocan 220
    Joseph Losco 222

    BOOKS RECEIVED 225

    NEWS 226

    SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS 230

     

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