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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