ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    Political Development and Political Evolution
    Peter A. Corning and Samuel M. Hines, Jr. 141

    Commentaries

    Recasting Mainstream Conceptions of Political Development
    Ronald H. Chilcote 156

    Commentary on Corning and Hines
    Robert A. Packenham 158

    Onomantic and Semantic Considerations
    Fred W. Riggs 160

    Authors' Responses

    Dissent with Frustration: Corning's Response
    Peter A. Corning 164

    Dissent with Modification: Hines' Response
    Samuel M. Hines, Jr. 166

    ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    Aristotle's Biopolitics: A Defense of Biological Teleology against Biological Nihilism
    Larry Arnhart 173

    Commentaries

    Aristotelian Teleology and Aristotelian Reason: A Commentary
    William T. Bluhm 192

    History and Biological Teleology
    John Bokina 195

    On the Relevance of Aristotle's Bioethics
    John F. Cornell 199

    Biological Nihilism and Modern Moral and Political Theory
    H. Tristham Engelhardt, Jr. 202

    Aristotle and the Sociobiologists: An Old Controversy Revived
    Ernest L. Fortin 205

    Human Nature and Morality: A Sociobiological Perspective
    Joseph Lopreato 208

    Final Causes and Instant Cases: A Comment
    Stephen G. Salkever 213

    On the Problematic Dimensions of Bioethics and the Pre-Conditions of Natural Right
    Leonard R. Sorenson 215

    The Good Life and the Life Sciences
    James L. Wiser 220

    Author's Response

    Larry Arnhart 223

    RECENT BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND PAPERS 230

    BOOK REVIEWS

    To Govern Evolution: Further Adventures of the Political Animal (Walter Truett Anderson)
    Précis 235
    Robert H. Blank 235
    Laurent Dobuzinskis 237
    Steven A. Peterson 239
    E. J. Woodhouse 240

    Ostracism: A Social and Biological Phenomenon (Margaret Gruter and Roger D, Masters, eds.)
    Précis 242
    William E. Addison 242
    Penny L. Bernstein 244
    Ben G. Blount 246
    Robert Heineman 248

    Biotechnology: The University-Industrial Complex (Martin Kenney)
    Précis 250
    Michael K. Hooker 250
    Bruce Jennings 252

    Biology and Bureaucracy: Public Administration and Public Policy from the Perspective of Evolutionary, Genetic, and Neurobiological Theory (Elliott White and Joseph Losco, eds.)
    Précis 254
    Samuel M. Hines, Jr. 254
    John C. Honey 257
    Warren D. TenHouten 258
    Tatu Vanhanen 261

    The Gene-Splicing Wars: Reflections on the Recombinant DNA Controversy (Raymond A. Zilinskas and Burke K. Zimmerman, eds.)
    Précis 263
    M. Haim Erder 263
    Todd Sagin 265
    Paul R. Schulman 267
    Edward J. Yoxen 268

    BOOKS RECEIVED 271

    NEWS 272

    SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS 275

     

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