ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    Bioconstitutional Politics: Toward an Interdisciplinary Paradigm
    Ira H. Carmen 193

    Commentaries

    Bioconstitutional Politics: Frankfurter on the New Frontier
    Roger Handberg 208

    Comments on Carmen's Interdisciplinary Paradigm
    James F. Herndon 210

    A Critique of "Bioconstitutional Politics: Toward an Interdisciplinary Paradigm"
    John R. Schmidhauser 213

    ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    Punctuated Equilibria and Political Science: A Neontological View
    Carl Gans 220

    Commentaries

    Scientific Revolutions and Punctuated Equilibria
    Michael T. Ghiselin 228

    Punctuated Equilibria, Political Science, and Paleopolitics
    Gary R. Johnson 229

    Politics: An Aspect of Cultural Evolution
    Claude S. Phillips 234

    Review of "Punctuated Equilibria and Political Science: A Neontological View"
    John M. Strate 237

    More than Metaphors: A Comment on Gans' Article
    Tatu Vanhanen 239

    Author's Response

    Carl Gans 241

    LETTERS 245

    RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

    Biosocial Predictors of Older Americans' Political Participation
    Steven A. Peterson 246

    RECENT ARTICLES AND PAPERS 252

    BOOK REVIEWS

    Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs (Leon R. Kass)
    Précis 255
    Liebe F. Cavalieri 255
    Rita R. Colwell 258
    Heinz Eulau 259

    Time, Chance, and Organizations: Natural Selection in a Perilous Environment (Herbert Kaufman)
    Précis 262
    Stephen H. Balch 262
    Lynton K. Caldwell 264
    Samuel M. Hines, Jr. 266
    Elliott White 268

    Gender Justice (David L. Kirp, Mark G. Yudof, and Marlene Strong Franks) AND Women, Biology, and Public Policy (Virginia Sapiro, ed.)
    Précis 270
    Denise L. Baer 271
    Hiram Caton 273
    Barbara Ryan 276
    Sarah Slavin 277

    Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (Philip Kitcher)
    Précis 279
    Albert Ducros 279
    Charles Rodell 281
    Allen R. Wilcox 283

    Algeny (Jeremy Rifkin,) AND Declaration of a Heretic (Jermey Rifkin)
    Précis 285
    R. J. Hilbelink 286
    Edward J. Korber 288
    Stephen C. Maxson 289
    J. Robert Nelson 291

    RESEARCH/REFERNCE BOOKS OF INTEREST 293

    BOOKS RECEIVED 294

    NEWS 295

    SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS 299

     

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